"As an object, a photograph has a life of it's own. It can be saved in a shoebox or in a museum. It can be reproduced as information or as advertisement. It can be bought and sold. It may be regarded as a utilitarian object or a work of art. The context in which a photograph is seen effects the meaning a viewer draws from it." Stephen Shore

I'm getting tired of lugging slrs around. At least for the time being I am going to shoot with my G10 and when I becomes available I'll pick up this new beast ..

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081907canons90.asp

The new G11 is tempting but i need/want a high quality pocket camera to compliment my walking photo syle.

One of my teachers in college said there were some images that are better left behind ... now I know what he said is so true...

The photo I did not take today was the light hitting Mount Rainier at 6 this morning. The light was a silvery color that was so intense and beautiful as to take my breath away. Even if I had a camera with my I would not have raised it to my eye. No camera could capture the beauty that unfolded before me. Sometimes it's better just to see.

"Without deviation progress is not possible." - the late, great Frank Zappa

"You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone."-- Joel Meyerowitz

A good friend in the bay area sent this to me today... he's been reading my mind.

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

The photo I did not take today and will someday...the back, bed side of a 60's Ford pick-up...sticking out 3 or 4 feet past the tin shed that hides it...it's orange with a white stripe.

"Have another drink on me
I've been empty since Arizona
I've turned my back on me
And the face of who I thought I was"
- Alejandro Escavedo - "Arizona"

The photogragph I did not take today was a young man in a wheelchair with a t-shirt that read "I'm from Nebraska. Let's get drunk". He was looking thru the WWF wrestling dvd's in Walmart. He looked content.

It's a strange way we live
To have been her before
And leave nothing behind
As we move towards the door
No, there's no one to blame
We died a little today
- Alejandro Escavado

I could never see tomorrow,
but I was never told about the sorrow
- Al Green

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than too late.

Charles Bukowski

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

...the photo I did not take today...
...that same man who gets on the bus every day and does the same thing. He searches the empty bus for the perfect seat. The bus is roaring away and still be walks up and down the aisle searching the empty bus (empty of everyone but me) for a seat. He finds one at last. He sits. Tomorrow is another day.

"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." - Walker Evans

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery. celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." - Jim Jarmusch

"We photographers don't really make anything: we peck at the world and try to find something curious or wild or beautiful that might fit into what the medium of photography can hold." -Lee Friedlander

"Go see the Grand Canyon, the Canyon De Chelly, Yosemite, The Green River. The photos of these places are a hint, just a blink at the real world. At most, an aphrodisiac." Lee Friedlander

"I can't fly but I can make experiments" - William Eggleston

"A small catalog appears in the mind's eye: a city at night, a large parking lot, a highway, a man who owns three cars, and the man who owns none..." Robert Frank

"Time went on...At a very early age I could play the piano. Anything, practically. After hearing it once. Not reading music, then...And maybe never play the same one twice. Very much like the way I work optically today." - William Eggleston