“Let dreamers dream what worlds they please; Those Edens can’t be found. The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees Are grown in solid ground. We’re neither pure nor wise nor good; We’ll do the best we know; We’ll build our house, and chop our wood, And make our garden grow.” -Richard Wilbur

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk, & restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Poplar Forest, August 17, 1811[1] As a native Virginian, a travel story on Virginia wines is something that begins to truly come alive, visually, when you pair [...]
“As great a picture can be made as one’s mental capacity–no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.” – Edward Weston “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you …
“You get your best pictures when you engage in a process of discovering each other. I want the viewer to have an emotional response to the subject, without some obvious technique getting in the way.” – Jodi Cobb
Reaching a ‘creative’ state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for ‘inspiration’. …
“I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in.” …