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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something.... by ira tucker

they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether :-)

― Jim Butcher

 

HFF!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
Advice to photographers: learn technique.... by ira tucker

 

then forget it :-)

John R. Whiting

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven.... by ira tucker

 

They're right :-)

Steven Wright

 

HMM!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
It's not easy to raise yourself out of ignorance.... by ira tucker

 

and then there's the bother of changing political parties :-)

Robert Brault

 

Protest Injustice! Resist!! Vote!! Vote!!! Vote!!!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
My previous work was essential, quite personal; I was just responding to my own situation.... by ira tucker

 

I think successful photography is always about being yourself :-)

Donovan Wylie

 

Kindness Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden. raleigh, north carolina
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing.... by ira tucker

But, you have to SEE :-)

Ernst Haas

 

HMM! Justice Matters! Indict Trump!!

 

foggy morning rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure.... by ira tucker

 

that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow :-)

Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Don't retire… aspire!... Retirement does not mean that you are all through. It means that you have experienced a breakthrough to a new freedom, with the time to do the things you've always wanted to do.... by ira tucker

 

Aspire to make the most of each new day... Aspire to serve... Aspire to discover the greatness within yourself that you've never had the time to develop... Aspire to attain an awareness of the joy of living. Celebrate life! :-)

Wilferd A. Peterson, "The Art of Retirement"

 

HFF!! Kndness Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Stop talking theory... and do not over-think the image. Lose the ego and let the photograph find you.... by ira tucker

 

Observe the life moving like a river around you and realize that the images you make may become part of the collective history of the time that you are living in :-)

Eli Reed

 

HGGT! Justice Matters! Indict Trump!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morocco. You have.... by ira tucker

 

the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically :-)

Albert Watson

 

HFF!! Kindness Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
An amateur wants to get thirty-six different pictures on one roll of film.... by ira tucker

 

A professional will take thirty-six rolls to get one picture :-)

Alan Latchley

 

HMM!! Justice Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working.... by ira tucker

 

on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake :-)

F. Wikzek

 

HFF!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film…. by ira tucker

 

if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better :-)

Garry Winogrand

 

leaving for vacation this morning...back in a week...take care friends :-)

 

foggy morning rose, "Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph.... by ira tucker

 

the photograph will be faithful to history :-)

Beaumont Newhall

 

HFF! Peace Now!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Photography is a means of recording forever.... by ira tucker

the things one sees for a moment :-)

Aaron Sussman

 

HBW!! Truth Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Kindness is the most tender and effective form.... by ira tucker

 

of leaving a memory inside people's hearts :-)

Dodinsky

 

HBW!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden. raleigh, north carolina
Did you ever find some really old ice cream way back in your freezer.... by ira tucker

all crusty and freezer burned? That stuff is gross, isn't it? At first :-)

Sean Morey

 

HFF!! guilty, as charged ;-)

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

 
I’ve always cared more about taking pictures.... by ira tucker

 

than about the art market :-)

Annie Leibovitz

 

HBW!! Ukraine Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
A rose's secret is not its scent.... by ira tucker

but the thrilling tales of hidden life its roots could tell :-)

Henry Stanley Haskins, 1940

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them.... by ira tucker

 

what to do and let them surprise you with their results :-)

― George S. Patton Jr.

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
... her arm was up, like waving farewell. I saw what I wanted.... by ira tucker

 

I pressed the button, and she was mine. It was the last picture.

Bert Stern

On photographing Marilyn Monroe six weeks before her death.

 

HDT! Peace Now!

 

blue dasher dragonfly on rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

  
The process of photographing is a pleasure: eyes open, receptive, sensing, and at some point, connecting.... by ira tucker

 

It's thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts :-)

Henry Wessel

 

HFF!! Justice Matters! No one is above the law!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by.... by ira tucker

 

looking up something and finding something else on the way :-)

Franklin P. Adams, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 1960

 

HBW!! Science Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True' little theater rose garden. raleigh, north carolina
Sometimes I wonder if the whole world isn't an idiot asylum.... by ira tucker

 

for the castaways of happier planets :-)

Malheureuse, "Four For a Cent," in The Overland Monthly, January 1893

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation.... by ira tucker

 

is there a worst trade one makes in life? :-)

Robert Brault

 

HMM!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
The only reason I would take up jogging is.... by ira tucker

 

so that I could hear heavy breathing again :-)

Erma Bombeck

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself—for the photograph—.... by ira tucker

 

without consideration of how it may be used :-)

Eliot Porter

 

Ukraine Matters! Peace Now!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance.... by ira tucker

 

the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon :-)

Author unknown

 

Happy Valentine's Day!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn.... by ira tucker

 

between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day :-)

E.B. White

 

raindrops on rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Never trust anyone whose television.... by ira tucker

 

is larger than their bookshelf :-)

Author Unknown

 

HFF!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

An art.. brings back smiles and memories..become an evidence.. documenting the history... show the unseen things.. spreading the news.... by ira tucker

 

shows the beauty of the world.. all in many ways...become a part of human's life since his birth to end of life..i.e the beauty and nature of PHOTOGRAPHY :-)

Lakshman Iyer

 

HGGT! Justice Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.... by ira tucker

 

When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light :-)

Gerardo Suter

 

HFF!! Season's Greetings!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

 
An artist cannot talk about his art.... by ira tucker

 

any more than a plant can discuss horticulture :-)

Jean Cocteau, 1955

 

HFF!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina

 
A photograph is not created by a photographer. What they do is open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on the film.... by ira tucker

 

The act of the photographer is closer to reading than it is to writing. They are the readers of the world :-)

Ferdinando Scianna

 

HFF! Truth Matters!

 

rose, "Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing.... by ira tucker

 

because he could only do a little :-)

Edmund Burke

 

HFF!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
A good laugh and a long sleep.... by ira tucker

 

are the best cures in the doctor's book :-)

Irish Proverb

 

HMM!! stay safe my friends, take care :-)

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.... by ira tucker

 

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

 

HGGT! Ukraine Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
It's not that I'm a Type‑B personality. It's that I'm driven by.... by ira tucker

 

a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy :-)

Robert Brault

 

HPPT!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden. raleigh, north carolina
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most.... by ira tucker

 

are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly :-)

Buckminster Fuller

 

HMM!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things.... by ira tucker

 

A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world :-)

Edouard Boubat

Paris, 1991

 

Kindness Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, norrth carolina
But when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure.... by ira tucker

 

it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you :-)

Larry Sultan

 

HPPT! Ukraine Matters!

 

dewdrops on rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Beauty unites all things, links together flower and star, with chains more certain than those of reason.... by ira tucker

 

The poet, the artist, thus finds the clue which guides them in their pilgrimage throughout the world :-)

Henry James Slack (1818–1896), The Ministry of the Beautiful, 1850

 

HFF!! Justice Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
[Eve]ry Time I Look at You by Blaize Nightfire

🎧 My Mood: Click here ► to play “Every Time I Look at You” 🎧

  
To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon.... by ira tucker

 

it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint :-)

Mark Twain

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Life beats down and crushes the soul.... by ira tucker

 

and art reminds you that you have one :-)

Stella Adler

 

HSS!! HMM!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second.... by ira tucker

 

is to be kind. And the third is to be kind :-)

Henry James

 

HGGT! Character Matters!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
There's a curious thing about pain or hardship. In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone.... by ira tucker

you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them — that they were alive :-)

Audrey Hepburn, 1990

 

HMM! HPPT!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
memory lane 💛 by Aimee ️

trip down memory lane to 2017- dream come true, seeing the California Redwoods! I cried when I saw them,☺️ lol.... Unbelievable tree species. Only place on Earth found are the coastal redwoods (California to southern Oregon). Check out a few incredible facts if you are interested.

I wish I took better pictures!😞

 

Redwood Facts

hilltromper.com/article/ten-amazing-facts-about-redwoods
It requires a great deal of faith for a man.... by ira tucker

 

to be cured by his own placebos :-)

John L. McClenahan

 

HFF!!

 

rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Alone Together by Just...Eve (Eve Nightfire)

🎧 Hear what I feel ► to play 🎧

 

And you’re the desert sand, I’ll be your water

And you’re the perfect plan I never thought of

I don’t wanna do this on my own

And you shouldn’t have to be alone

I would rather be alone together

Be alone together...

  

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