Photography is a strange phenomenon. You trust your eye and you cannot help but bare your soul.

Inge Morath

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

Elliott Erwitt

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

Arnold Newman

"...you don't invent what you photograph. You much more yield to what is there."

Frederick Sommer (Sommer made a point, but was proved wrong many times, and in the digital age...almost daily. Sontag and others pointed out, photos provide a kind of truth, but that truth may be undetectable, and often misinterpreted. Still, art is often a beautiful lie)

Some photographers create photos that reflect their dreams; others make photos to share their delight, or horror, at what exists.

Me

Still learning every day. Based in Southern California, U.S. It's a crazy, beautiful universe.

All my photos are copyrighted and I shoot duplicate JPEG and Raw images almost always. If you're interested in one of my pictures in high resolution, they're available. I also have a wide range of large (5.5" X 8.5") writing cards (blank inside) with envelopes, featuring my favorite photos. Please contact me at wineslacker@icloud.com or Flickrmail.