"Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button."

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Source : Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

Michael Langford

#Photography Quotes #Decision Quotes #Style Quotes

“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will actâ€”it does not matter whomâ€”and we will survive.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jul 30, 2014
“As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."”
“In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.”
“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was Godâ€™s.”
“Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.”
“It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.”
“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”
“An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.”

Source : Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.105, Vintage

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