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1. “ You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

2. “ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

3. “ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

4. “ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt

5. “ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

6. “ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

7. “ If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. – Garry Winogrand

8. “ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous

9. “ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

10. “It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen - On editing photos

( NOTE: from Digital Photography School)

My foray into photography was out of curiosity and to keep record of some significant moments in my life and my family's. I never cared before about the technical side of it, all that mattered to me was that when I pressed down the shutter, I captured the picture. ISO, aperture, shutter speed, noise, etc. were alien terms to me. With the advent of digital photography and my access to a dslr camera, I was enthralled to a whole new world of taking pictures. Pressing down the shutter is no longer enough. I'd spent countless times in front of the computer searching for more information about digital photography. I even went to the extent of buying a book on the subject. This is another hobby I would like to indulge more if my means permits me because it can be costly too....