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First uploaded images to Flickr in August 2010 having discovered this site to be the perfect facility for sharing photographs with many great photographers from near and far around the world and I continue to be inspired and encouraged by the contacts that I have made over the years.

During the 1980's I became interested in black and white photography and learned to process film and print in black & white and using Olympus and Nikon SLR cameras I built up a portfolio of Glasgow/London/Paris character studies. Personal family photographs were the subject of the majority of images taken during the 1990's.

Using digital Nikon D90, D7000 and more recently Nikon D750 cameras with 50mm or 85mm prime lenses and editing/post processing using Photoshop Elements, my favourite subjects to photograph are the colourful characters on the streets of Glasgow and I love that rare adrenalin buzz you get when an expression, the composition and lighting and colours all come together well in a street portrait.

In 2017 a collage of my Street Portraits was installed in the new restaurant/bar "The Citizen" at 24 St Vincent Place in Glasgow.

The offices of the Evening Citizen newspaper were located in this building for many years and now colourful pop art portraits by street artist Lowdown and beautiful archive black and white photographs of Glasgow folk by retired Evening Citizen photographer Stewart Fair also feature in the new establishment near George Square

www.glasgowist.com/new-restaurant-and-bar-the-citizen-ope...

June 2020

email : cshamilton223@gmail.com

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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst".

(Henri Cartier-Bresson)

"Don't set out to get something specific. Follow your nose, it may surprise you." - John Maloof

"Great photography is always on the edge of failure." - Garry Winogrand

"Street photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one." - Robert Gillis

"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur." -- Alfred Eisenstaedt

"Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involved are on the move." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." - Robert Capa (Hungarian Photo Journalist)

"If you want it you get nothing, just be receptive and it happens" - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get..." Neil Leifer (NYC Photographer)

“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.” Bruce Gilden, New York Street Photographer

"If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, then it’s a street photograph. You feel like you’re really there.” Bruce Gilden

"Sometimes life is like street photography, 99% failure. But that 1% is good enough reason why it should continue to go on"... Nats Manuel

"All a photographer has to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment." Alfred Eisenstaedt

"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer." - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” - Elliott Erwitt

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

"You have to live and life will give you pictures." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Never stop photographing. It is very likely that your best photograph has not yet been captured". - Imogen Cunningham

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” - Alfred Eisenstaedt

”There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box." -

Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“If you can’t make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don’t push the button.” - Ruth Bernhard

“It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.” - Sebastiao Salgado

Light makes photography.

Embrace light.

Admire it.

Love it.

But above all, know light.

Know it for all you are worth,

and you will know the key to photography.

- George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company

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