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Sunny With a High of 75

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”

-- Mark Denma

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

There are so many times that I have forgotten my camera and missed amazing shots. The most disappointing time was when I went to Colorado and all I had was my cell phone to take pictures. 

This shot was on an old film camera that doesn't always take every picture. It was a lucky shot.

A Rose by Any Other Name

“That’s what photography does. It’s very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary & unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s the art of limitation. Framing the world. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in. With photography you have one little moment and you allow everyone else to fill it in.”

—  Alec Soth

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

 

This is one of my favorite photos I have taken. Just because its simple, but still provokes a feeling. Seeing the beauty of just one flower can make you feel something, it is just amazing.

For Old Time Sakes

Lake Day

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

-- Aaron Siskind

This photo is from Clinton Lake. Taken with a 35mm Canon camera. There is just something so special about a film photography captures an element that digital just can't.

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

“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.” 

Gerardo Suter (1957-present, photographer)

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

 

In photography light is the most important thing, it makes or breaks a shot. Bad light equals bad pictures. I like this quote because I see photography as a snap shot of a second of time. Which is beautiful with in itself.

Giants!

There are so many cool ways to make great photos, and some by bending your perspective.

“The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”

Harold Evans