How to Take A Good Photo

“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel

Kona watching cows at sunset over Mt Burdell

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”  ~ Ansel Adams

Golden Gate Bridge from Marin Headlands

“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.” — Annie Leibovitz

Mary and Kona on rainy Cherry Hill walk

I took these three photos yesterday.  It was a good day to take photos, which I anticipated due to a storm and lots of clouds.  But any day is a good day if you go looking.

“Every other artist begin with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product”. – Edward Steichen

Before and After Slider

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are” – Ernst Haas

Go take pictures.  Have a story.  Have a feeling.  That is the secret of a good photograph.

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” – Yousuf Karsh