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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

Through the Looking Glass

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls.”
—  Ted Grant Canadian Photographer

 I read this quote and thought about what people think of when they think of souls. What immediately come to my mind is the eyes. It is a commons saying that the eyes are the window to our souls. When was the last time that you really looked into someones eye? We see so many different sets eyes everyday. What would we see if we look harder and longer? If you see a photograph of a eye in black in white and not distracted by the color you will purely see their soul? So I took my camera in hopes to capture a soul in a photograph.

 

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

What is in a Patch of Grass?

I grab my camera and wasn't sure on what my plan was to capture beauty in something simple or familiar. I thought of what is most familiar place we have in our lives, our homes. I walked around my house and went to my backyard found a patch of grass and is where I shot today. Today I was shooting with my Canon EOS Rebel T5.

Here is the area where I was shooting.

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

 These are the beautiful thing I found in the everyday patch of grass.

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

Photographer: Abbie Mansel

“It is important to see what is invisible to others”
—  Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer