Day Thirty Four - Street # 4

Quote of the Day: “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." – Matt Hardy

Day Thirty Three - Street # 3

Quote of the Day: "Living photography builds up, does not tear down. It proclaims the dignity of man. Living photography is positive in its approach; it sings a song of life -not death." - Berenice Abbott, Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor) , Page: 17

Day Thirty Two - Street # 2

Saturday took a class in "Street Photography", today I went out and photographed on my own. I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up, a street photographer.

Quote of the Day: "Street photography is a renewable resource. If you dont like what you see wait 5 minutes or walk a hundred feet." - Craig Coverdale

Day Thirty One - Day of Rest

Today, after all the photos I took yesterday, I decided to take a slow day and just take a few photos of just one object to make sure I had one good daily.

Quote of the Day: "What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
— John Lubbock

Day Thirty - Street Photography Class

I love photographing people, but I'm way out of my comfort zone trying to photograph people on the street. So, I decided to use the money my co-workers at Northrop Grumman gave me as a retirement gift to take Jon Williams "Essentials of Street Photography" course. We had class in the morning. He told us about the "Great Masters" of street photography Henry Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Andre Kerteze, Alfred Eisenstadt, Paul Strand, Minor White, Gary Winogrand, Brassi, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Doisneau. He explained the essential of "Street Photography" elements, "It must deal primarily with social aspect of civilization, it must be honest in capture and visual presentation, it must rely on the photographers awareness of street society, the drama, order, disorder, beauty, ugliness,and poignancy. He then taught us where the power and perceived value of street photos come from, he said,"Emotive stimulus by pure visual impact, social relevance to the popular culter as a whole, relevance of the photograp to the individual viewer, prevailing morality, bias, perjudice, and perceptions of reality specific to the viewer, geographical relevance, and historical importance." I hope that some of these photos I took show some of these attributes. Today was a great photography day for me, took 243 photos in a little over three hours.

Quote of the Day: "My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me." - Edward Weston

Day Twenty Nine - Vanity of Vanities

About a month ago got this vanity tag decide to take a photo of it today. I went and bought the domain name today. SHTTRBG.COM I even pointed the url to here to make my blog easier to find.

Quote of the Day: Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen. - Elliott Erwitt

MY New Mountqain Bike

I order my mountain bike in August, but I have been healing after my surgery. My butt just hasn't been ready to set on a bike seat. Well today was the day I got it out of layaway. I took it for a two mile ride.