“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin
From Wikipedia:
Nin referred to her simultaneous marriages as her “bicoastal trapeze”. According to Deidre Bair:
[Anaïs] would set up these elaborate façades in Los Angeles and in New York, but it […]
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
Yousuf Karsh
Well, actually I’m not watching this excellent series of videos at lynda.com. I watched them all years ago…
It”s just a heads-up to the many people who ask me where they can learn about photography.
Classes aside, the courses at lynda.com – especially those by Ben Long – are an excellent place to start.
Highly recommended!
Amanda […]
“In order to see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
Claude Monet
“It’s such a massive double edged sword. It makes no sense to me, and that’s why I’m so outspoken about my sexuality. I think that women are entitled to sexual pleasure. I don’t understand what is wrong with it. It’s something that’s good, and it makes you feel positive and happy and relieved. It’s so […]
“He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. ”
Michelangelo
Oxford Dictionaries announced their word of the year for 2013 to be “selfie”, which they define as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” Although the rampant proliferation of the technique is quite recent, the “selfie” itself is far […]
The word ‘selfie’ was coined in Australia.
The first use of the word selfie in any paper or electronic medium appeared in an Australian internet forum on 13 September 2002 in Karl Kruszelnicki’s ‘Dr Karl Self-Serve Science Forum’.
By 2013, the word “selfie” had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of […]
“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work… you’ll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”
Eric Maisel
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”
Michelangelo
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