You’re either sucking air, or you’re sucking dirt. If you’re sucking dirt, you can’t complain, and if you’re sucking air, you’ve got nothing to complain about. — Robert Kunkel Jr., a Vietnam veteran who works with wounded soldiers.

“Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. — Edward R. Murrow

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

A photographic print becomes a tangible object rather than just an image on a screen. By printing images, the art of the photo becomes not a relic of the past, but rather, a way we can continue to walk into the future with our memories in hand. — Adorama.

One thing the coronavirus has given us is perspective. We are all connected, for good or ill.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all they Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all they Tears wash away a Word of it.” — Omar Khayyam

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.“ — Anne Frank

Death was in the air.

So was birth.

— From The People, Yes, by Carl Sandberg.

‘To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.’ —George Santayana

My girlfiend surprised me with some lisianthus flowers. "Maybe you could photograph them,” she said

Photography requires on-the-spot problem-solving skills. In this case, I restorted to the blitzkrieg method: I took hundreds of photos.

‘Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ - Dylan Thomas

‘We all have light and dark sides. It’s the portrait photographer’s role to show them off in an honest and respectful way.’

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“As I see it, my photographs, when gathered up, form a mixed bouquet. They have no single subject or topic. If commentary binds them them together, so much the better.” — John Loengard

“Light, the raw material of photography, travels infinitely in a straight line. When it strikes an object it illuminates it and then bounces off at a predicatble angle. We photographers cite a law of physics known as the Law of Reflection.”

“I am making use of my time. I am preparing myself for some future release, assuming I don’t fall prey to the disease.”