Summary Page For January, 2006

Jan. 01, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Rose”

© Xavier Cambrodí [_____]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060101.jpg

"A wonderful Start on the year 2005 - Brian

" "An artist must be ruthlessly selfish." ~ W. Eugene Smith

Jan. 02, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C850 (V05.26)

“A Pond with a View”

© Vaidotas Dziugys [vdziugys]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060102.jpg

"Every setting conveys a thousand realities and the joy of photography comes with emphasizing the dimensions that bring personal choice to bear. A still scene w/o apparent action can reflect anything between tranquility and horror. Leaving it's capturer the choice." ~ Jill Enfield

Jan. 03, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“Landing”

© Shirley Koningen [K C K]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060103.jpg

"Sometimes you need to be patient, and then if you're lucky maybe, just maybe, you can catch the motion as the bird swoops in for a landing."

~ Shirley

" "If you keep your cool, you'll get everything." ~ Elliott Erwitt

Jan. 04, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.61)

“House Cat”

© Ciro Castronuovo [Ciro]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060104.jpg

"Available light is any damn light that is vailable!" ~ W. Eugene Smith

Jan. 05, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“Feline Beauty”

© Claudia Magadan [Clauuddia]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060105.jpg

"This is my cat "Princess Fiona" She is 2 years old and likes to lounge in the yard. She loves to pose for my camera!" ~ Claudia

"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if.... " And then do it." ~ Duane Michals

Jan. 06, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945

“Ginny Cat”

© Suraiya Hollings [_____]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060106.jpg

"Unlike a painter, a photographer starts with something finished and works backward."

~ Anonymous

Jan. 07, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Sophie's Big Adventure"

© Mat Curtis [ _____]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060107.jpg

"Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment." ~ Aaron Sussman

Jan. 08, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)d

“My dog Ellie"

© SystemAdmin [cttc.staffs.sch.uk]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060108.jpg

"No matter how boring a job, it's a success if he's been able to get one picture for himself." ~ Elliott Erwit

Jan. 09, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Disney's Magic Kingdom”

© David J. Rull [_____]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060109.jpg

"Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is, but I also think it is possible to walk, like Alice, through a looking glass and find another kind of world with the camera" ~ Tony Ray-Jones

Jan. 10, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Beetle on Anacamptis Pyramidalis”

© Marco Jona [marcoj70]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060110.jpg

" "The picture was taken on the Italian Alps last July. I used a HP945 camera with the best resolution, macro setting and forced the flash on, with shutter speed of 1/180 and aperture of 3.02. The picture was later reframed." ~ Marco

"Sometimes the simplest picture are the hardest to get." ~ Neil Leifer

Jan. 11, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C850 (V07.26)

“Bread Landscape”

© Igor Veber [iver1]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060111.jpg

"Completely My Product[The Bread is] home made of flour that I buy directly from the mill and in this case I have mixed 60% of 850 type (common bread type flour) and some bran (10%), some fine flour (10%), some rye or spelt flour (20%) And it's funny because it is not always, that such an interesting "landscape" occurs." ~ Igor

"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition." ~ Wystan Hugh Auden

Jan. 12, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)+

“Anything You Ask For”

© Harald Haganes [Harald]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060112.jpg

"The picture was taken in a small town, Lefkara, up in the mountains of Cyprus. The town is famous for needlework and silversmith work, and it is a very picturesque place and beautiful surroundings - Harald

"Memory does not make films, it makes photographs." ~ Milan Kundera

WINNER

Jan. 13, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.67)d

“Cool Mountain Water”

© Lockyer Mercer [Lockyer]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060113.jpg

"Picture was taken in Western Alberta around mid-September with my HP945 and all settings were in "Auto" mode." ~ Lockyer

"When you feel suddenly the need to stop, to enjoy only a bit of time, you become a photographer. Just take the photo and show it to the rest of the world." ~ Carlos Dominique

Jan. 14, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.67)

“Tender Love”

© Vivek [viv-ek]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060114.jpg

"It's a mountain flower growing in the middle of winter and is put tenderly in hands of my girlfriend!!" ~ Vivek

"Art is nature seen through temperament. Without observation, our art becomes a travesty of Nature." - Emile Zola

Jan. 15, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“The Monument”

© Per Norløff [Pedro]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060115.jpg

"General Marco in la Plaza de la Revolucion, Santiago de Cuba" ~ Per

"Light is the shape and play of my thought.... my reason for being a photographer." ~ Barbara Morgan

Jan. 16, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.46)

“ "B"... in Hiding”

© Ro-Ann Dansereau [thevancats]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060116.jpg

"In a perfect photograph, there will be as many beauties lurking unobserved as there are in flowers that blush unseen in forests and meadows." ~ O. W. Holme

Jan. 17, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Sunset”

© Hakan Alkan [Technics]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060117.jpg

"Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place." ~ Alex Webb

Jan. 18, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Just Checking Things Over”

© Sheila Blom [Esser]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060118.jpg

"I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are ... a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience." ~ Joel Meyerowitz

Jan. 19, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)d

“Elmo Close-up”

© Matt Carlson [thesurfguru]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060119.jpg

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

Jan. 20, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.48)

“Full Steam Ahead”

© Cliff [RotR ]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060120.jpg

"A female Mallard effortlessly swims along, creating a bow-wave and ripples as she goes. I like the way the afternoon sun gives the water a silvery sheen & mirrors the ducks reflection." ~ Cliff

"Ultimately, simplicity is the goal - in every art, and achieving simplicity is one of the hardest things to do. Yet it's easily the most essential." ~ Pete Turner

Jan. 21, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Lilium Martagon”

© Marco Jona [marcoj70]

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060121.jpg

"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

Jan. 22, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)d

“Getting too Big”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060122.jpg

"Taken at the Warrook Farm near Melbourne, Australia." ~ Ann

"I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on."~ Naomi Campbell

Jan. 23, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.59)

“K-Fir Plane”

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"Every time I go out with a camera I experience things that are common to most of us, that are common to people who experience war and suffering, things that make people believe in society or not. To see is to believe and that is what I do with my pictures." ~ Þorvaldur Örn Kristmundsson

Jan. 24, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.82)

“Wild Animal in my Room”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060124.jpg

"The whole search is for the unknown." ~ Jerry Valente

Jan. 25, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“Kiwi”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060125.jpg

"The camera is my third eye. When I pick it up, I feel like I have an outlet for expressing how I see the world. It is a tool that lays the foundation for my work..." ~ Fred Miranda

Jan. 26, 2006 HP PhotoSmart 618 (V1.10)

“Church Overlooking the St. Lawrence”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060126.jpg

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." ~ William Blake

Jan. 27, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Time for Bed?”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060127.jpg

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." ~ Publilius Syrus

Jan. 28, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.53)

“The Mountaineer”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060128.jpg

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." ~ Brooks Anderson

Jan. 29, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.67)

“Meringue Slopes”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060129.jpg

"Photo taken after brief snow storm near Monarch Pass, Colorado. I liked the simplicity and limited palette of the scene, setting sun was breaking through and highlighting on some of the slopes." ~ Claudette

" The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." ~ Ansel Adams

Jan. 30, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C850 (V05.11)

“Flower Fireworks”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060130.jpg

"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was.

I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ~ Wynn Bullock

Jan. 31, 2006 HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)

“Snow on the Mountains”

http://www.hp945.com/a_POTD_06/060131.jpg

"A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. ~ Author Unknown