The Shape of Light: Before Sunrise

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise

Tree in Winter Series

Image 11

When words become unclear,

I shall focus with photographs.

When images become inadequate,

I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

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RuthApril 21, 2018 at 7:13 AM
I remembered you mentioning a new blog for nature/bird photos and poems, George, and then I saw no more about it, until this morning. Thank you for the reminder at FB.

I adore pink and yellow together, and no artist does it better than Mother Nature. Ansel Adams' response to the world makes sense to me.
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GeorgeApril 22, 2018 at 6:12 AM
Thanks, Ruth. Yes, I think Ansel Adams has it right, especially in these times when words are more unclear than ever. To be still, to listen, to see, to create — these are my most reliable refuges.
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VOICES OF INSPIRATION

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~ Ansel Adams

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world. ~ Henry Miller

You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~ Ansel Adams

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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ Confucius

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ~ Pierre Bonnard

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ~ Henry Miller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake