Summary Page For December, 2005

Dec. 01, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.83)

“Fires of Hell!”

© Vladimir Chira [vladutzz89]

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"Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance." ~ Guy Le Querrec

Dec. 02, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“They Live on a Ledge”

© Harald Haganes [Harald]

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"The picture is from the Geirangerfjord, Norway. People who Live there had to carry on their back whatever they needed, from the fjord and up to the ledge by a narrow path in the mountain side. The alternative way was a long days walking over the mountain " ~ Harald

"Photography is for you. Dive in and enjoy a hearty swim." ~ Ralph Hattersley

Dec. 03, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.66)

“Autumn Sunflower”

© Vivek [viv-ek]

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"Like doctors, photographers work with what is present. I suspect our chief emotions are anticipation, frustration, and patience, balanced by a marvelous sense of elation when things go right -when we think we've captured within a photograph some missing feeling, some sense of beauty, or bit of mystery in the fabric of life." ~ John Loengard

Dec. 04, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Cuban Evening”

© Per Norløff [Pedro]

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"The knowing of "WHY" is not equal to the sum of the experience." ~ Kevin Russo

Dec. 05, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.74)

“Pee Wee Hockey Action”

© Glenn McClement [_____]

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"Photography is a bitter medicine, a wonderful toy, a difficult - yet universal - word." ~ Mauro Fiorese

Dec. 06, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C850 (V07.26)

“A Tree”

© Igor Veber [iver1]

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"Photography is like life... What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling.... An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means." ~ Leonard Freed

Dec. 07, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.39)

“Confusion”

© Yannis Larios [Yannis]

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"The chairs that were stored in such as careless way, brought to my mind the word "confusion". As if someone could not think of another way to store them, or as if he was so confused that he refused to put things in order! I snapped it at black and white, " ~ Yannis

"Photographers may be concerned, conceptual, confrontational, candid, casual, constructing, but what is important is that they have a point of view." ~ John Loengard

Dec. 08, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.45)+

“Leaves Fall”

© Vaidotas Dziugys [vdziugys]

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"It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use." ~ Sam Abell

Dec. 09, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“Amaryllis”

© Sean Huntley [Kingbozo]

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"Shot taken at the Como Conservatory in St. Paul MN., U.S.A." ~ Sean

"Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~ John Loengard

Dec. 10, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Maldives”

© Ian Farnell [_____]

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"A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent." ~ Eugene Atget

Dec. 11, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Far, Far Away”

© Xavier Cambrodí [_____]

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"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot -- and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice." ~ Ted Orland

Dec. 12, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Begging in Vain”

© Per Norløff [Pedro]

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"I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level." ~ James Nachtwey

Dec. 13, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“Kitty Kat Stroll”

© Sheila O'Brian [_____]

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"We see great things in our lives and then we die. All that's left of us are images in pictures of what we've seen." ~ Tony Spielmaker

Dec. 14, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C850

“Reflections”

© Jack D. Davis [Jack]

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"A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show." ~ Fred Picker

Dec. 15, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.67)

“Muleys at Sunset”

© Claudette Anderson [Claudette]

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"Taken at Ridgeway, Colorado." ~ Claudette

"Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together." ~ Keith Lazelle

Dec. 16, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.47)

“Mallard”

© Pietari Reinikainen [DrMorphos]

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"Photography is like fishing. You go out in the morning with no idea of what the trip will bring. Sometimes luck is on your side and all your crab pots are full of prime Lobsters. Other times you get nothing." ~ Bob Croxford

Dec. 17, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.74)

“Daybreak”

© Sylvia Segovia [icemama]

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"Taken at about 7:30 AM by the beach. Turned out to be a beautiful day." ~ Sylvia

"A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever." ~ Raghu Rai

Dec. 18, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“Sunset on the Bebrusai”

© Ruth Goren-Yakov [_____]

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"Taken at Bebrusai Lake, Lithuania. " ~ Ruth

"Finding the right subject is the hardest part." ~ Mary Ellen Mark

Dec. 19, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.40)

“Thin Bridge by Night”

© Jos van Straalen [Dutch]

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"Photographer is somebody who is inspired by the surrounding reality and who’s transforming the reality using photographic equipment. I was always inspired by what’s within me, and nobody has ever invented a camera capable to photograph thoughts." ~ Zdzislaw Beksinski

Dec. 20, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Early Morning Sunrise”

© Sheila Blom [esser]

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"Taken at - Canoe Mountain, Valemount B.C. Canada" ~ Sheila

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." ~ Dorothea Lange

Dec. 21, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.47)

“Luca”

© Pietari Reinikainen [DrMorphos]

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"Merry Christmas! Hyvää Joulua!" ~ Pietari

"I like people with their own beauty." ~ David Bailey

Dec. 22, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)d

“Pine Trees”

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

Dec. 20, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Sunset Walk”

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"[All photographers have to do, is] find and catch the story-telling moment." ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

WINNER

Dec. 24, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.47)

“Nature by the Lake”

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"Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeals to me." ~ Sam Abell

Dec. 26, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.47)

“Lake Side”

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"I do what I feel, that's all, I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done." ~ Andre Kertes

Dec. 27, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.67)

“Colour of Winter”

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"The advance of photography is something like the progress of an army. The main body keeps in safe marching order, while the more daring and adventurous are the pioneers who lead the army - rushing here, feeling their way there; always skirmishing, often retiring, but eventually succeeding in finding new tracks and safe paths for the main body to securely pass along." ~ Jabez Hughes

Dec. 28, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“The Path”

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"Things don't look the same in a camera; not like what's really there." ~ Marc Pomeranc

Dec. 29, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.47)

“Nature by the Lake”

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"Nothing flattered the fin-de-siecle photographer more than the admiring exclamation: That doesn't look a bit like a photograph!" ~ Helmut Gernsheim

Dec. 30, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Frost”

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" "The ingredients that go into the creation of outstanding images are subject emphasis, the eradication of time, and universal themes. That is, a readily identified subject in a timeless setting that is universally recognized by people everywhere. Such an image is not only the hallmark of a truly remarkable photograph; it is achieved by very few photographers." ~ Bob Shepherd

Dec. 31, 2005 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.00)

“Trudeau Mountain”

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"The mountain on the right is to be called Trudeau Mountain in the spring of 2006. Picture is taken at Valemount B.C. " ~ Sheila

"Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time." ~ Alexander Rodchenko

"A wonderful sunset on the year 2005 - Brian