donpratt Photographs

Photography "Attitudes"

For Good images...
Take many shots.
Refocus often.
Show only the best.

donpratt

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer.
You need less imagination to be a painter
because you can invent things.
But in photography everything is so ordinary;
it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

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Bird Humor

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Two birds are sitting on a perch.
One says to the other, "Do you smell fish?"

The Woodpeckers Might Have To Go!

Mock Hummingbird

I change them when I get a few that look OK.

Photography...
You know what photography is?
That's a good picture; that's a bad picture. I like it, I don't like it.   - Harry Benson
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Ah, photography's simple.    Basically, you try to put your camera in an interesting position.     - Harry Benson
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.     - Ansel Adams
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper; the photographer begins with the finished product.     - Edward Steichen
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We take language into our minds; we read words in the same internal voice with which we think, remember, pray.
But when we look at paintings or photographs, the reverse is true. ...we move out of ourselves into the image, as though it were another world...    - Jayne Anne Phillips
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.    - David Bailey
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And Now For Something Completely Different...
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.    - Diane Arbus
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.    - Terry Pratchett
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Love is based on imagination.    - Olivier Martinez
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The best health care plan is to not get sick.     - donpratt
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May everyone better use their God given wisdom.     - donpratt
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It's almost like giving something worthwhile to an idiot.     - donpratt
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Wag More.    Bark Less.     - donpratt
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Paula Poundstone about her drinking problems...
"...I can say, unequivocally, that not one drink I ever had, ever, made anything better in any way."    - Paula Poundstone
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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. - Unknown

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Maybe the short answer is to love what you do, and keep trying to do it better. - Graham Jeffery

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. - Jacob M. Braude

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Never waste any time you could spend sleeping. - Frank H. Knight - economist

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. - Adam Smith - philosopher/economist

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Around negative people??

If you can't change the people around you, change the people around you. - Farrah Gray

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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What other people think of you is none of your business. - Regina Brett

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There will come a time when passion is gone.
There will come a time when ambition is gone.
Curiosity will sustain you.    - Haywood Hale Broun

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters.
The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. - Fran Lebowitz

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin

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It's fun being me. Is it fun being you? - Denny Crane

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What happens when you get scared half to death twice? - Steven Wright

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Since 2/5/2011

Since 1/8/2011

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