Amber starts off as sap from a tree, " Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside."" Oh."" A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
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Marc Riboud
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Dorothea Lange
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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George Bernard Shaw
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