"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective."
- Irving Penn
"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
- Yousuf Karsh
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
- George Eastman
"Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field."
- Peter Adams
"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."
- Matt Hardy
"To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul."
- Andri Cauldwell
"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."
- Robert Frank
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
- Ansel Adams
"When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!"
- Ted Grant
"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."
- Ansel Adams
This video is dedicated to my wife Beverly. She is the anchor of my ship, my reason for living and I love her and the family we created together with all my heart and soul.