edit: 10/3/2014

 

since flickr has obfuscated how to get to these pages, i'll list them here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/ken-gilbert/popular-views/ my pics from most to least viewed

 

www.flickr.com/photos/ken-gilbert/popular-faves/ my pics from most to least favorited

 

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edit 5/28/14

 

recently i've started migrating my more "spicy" pics to friends access.

 

i've also started looking more critically at my contact list in general and making some changes.

 

to those of you i've known for a while, this will actually result in access to more pics than before.

 

to those of you just creeping around with nothing to share, the opposite result.

 

times change, people change, and so does my flickr stream...

  

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basically, i'm a candid photographer. i take pictures to capture memories, and emotions, documenting the past for the future. my trusty 5dc is often with me in pursuit of this goal.

 

i'm hooked on the feeling when something comes out better than expected. what's not to like about that?

 

you can find out more about me by going to my website and my wife's website. i've also been interviewed here.

 

i've spent a lot of time tagging my photos. if you think one could use another tag, go ahead.

 

to browse my stream in random order, use flickriver.

 

if you want to make me a contact/friend/family, go ahead. i don't subscribe to the like for like contact method. i place people in my contacts when i like their photostreams. contrary to popular belief, i do NOT have mounds of explicit photos of my wife kristen, open to only friend and/or family, so don't bother asking for access to the "special" pics.

 

unlike most erotic posters, this account--my identity and my family's--is not anonymous.

  

i don't model mayhem very much, but i have an account.. www.modelmayhem.com/618940

 

quotes go here:

 

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‎There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

 

Ansel Adams

 

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

 

HCB

 

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

 

Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

 

Robert Frank

 

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

You can observe a lot just by watching.

 

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

 

Yogi Berra

 

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

 

john milton, areopagitica (1644)

 

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

 

-Avedon

 

"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."

 

"The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed."

 

-Winogrand

 

You don't go out and accidentally find something that's going to make a good picture, but [instead, you find it] in yourself, knowing already what you want to do...at least subconsciously if not consciously; you find a thing in so-called nature or so-called reality which corresponds to this preconceived, this pre-sensitized, concept, which is hidden somewhere in your imagination or your subconscious...You go out and find what you are already prepared to see.

 

Clarence John Laughlin

 

The best zoom lens is your legs.

 

Ernst Haas

 

Photography has been a means to express the obvious.

 

Cecilia Henle

 

A photo you took yourself is a tiny time machine. You know where you were standing. You hear the sounds. Best of all, you know why you took that photo.

 

Pepper Hume

 

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

 

Dorothea Lange

 

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

 

D. H. Lawrence

 

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

 

Freeman Patterson

 

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new.

 

Freeman Patterson

 

A photo must make the viewer feel all the senses with one.

 

Todd Plough

 

A photograph is not only an image as a painting is an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

 

Susan Sontag

 

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

 

Jerry Uelsmann

 

In the same way the karate practitioner must aim through the block to break it, the artist must aim through the photo to the subject to find the elements that can barely be felt.

 

Kitty Wallis

 

If the Egyptians had cameras they would have gotten the eyes right.

 

Arnie Westerman

 

The man who merely at rare moments has this creative impulse and expresses that creativeness through perfection and technique, surely you would not call him an artist. To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life is that expression, whether it be a picture, music, or his behavior; who has not divorced his expression on a canvas or in music, or in stone from his daily conduct, daily living. That demands the highest intelligence, highest harmony. He may express it on canvas, or he may talk, or he may paint; or he may not express it at all, he may feel it. But all this demands that exquisite poise, that intensity of awareness and, therefore his expression is not divorced from the daily continuity of living.

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

I am afraid that you have misunderstood my views. I am not especially interested in anonymous photography, or pictorialist photography, or avant-garde photography, or in straight, crooked or any other subspecific category of photography; I am interested in the entire, indivisible, hairy beast—because in the real world, where photographs are made, these subspecies, or races, interbreed shamelessly and continually.

 

John Szarkowski

 

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

 

Albert Camus