• Ansel Adams,  Art,  Candid Portraits,  coffee shops,  Creativity,  lifestyles,  quotes

    Practicing the practice

    Practicing her pencil drawings

    I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium. – 

    Ansel Adams

    Last week I posted an image of a young artist practicing his craft at a local coffee shop. Yesterday afternoon I  took this image of a young lady practicing her craft at the same coffee shop. What is interesting about this young lady is she is drawing from a book that I assume to be a textbook. While the young man was creating the character from the muse within him. So, I practiced more courage and my photography by asking the young lady if I could take a photo of her practicing her practice. She agreed.

  • Ansel Adams,  sunsets

    Sunset at the lake

    Sunset
    Sunset

    “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

    Ansel Adams