Taking Pictures

I began taking pictures

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. Galen Rowell

I’m often uncomfortable taking

I’m often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I’m a photographer and that this is my job. Eugene Richards

I was an amateur – I am an amateur – and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. Erwin Blumenfeld

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she’s well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures. Errol Morris

Everybody\\’s got to do

Everybody’s got to do something… I’d been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors’ children and so … Read more

The advantage of taking

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. Elliott Erwitt

The advice I would

The advice I would give to any photographer – young, old or in-between – is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures – look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take … Read more

The whole point of

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. Elliott Erwitt

We\\’re constantly taking pictures

We’re constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It’s a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn’t alive. Elle Fanning

Since I switched to

Since I switched to an iPhone, I did start taking pictures of people I like. Until then, I strangely never took pictures. I think the iPhone became this space that was different enough from a \”photograph,\” so I find myself taking pictures of daily things. If someone I dated asked me to take their picture, … Read more