Photos by BT

 

 

 

 "I am inclined to think that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very young, when our senses were most acute to color and to smell and our natures most lyrical."

 

----Dorothy Thompson, The Courage To Be Happy, 1957

 

Arctic Red

January 27, 2010

Photo by BT

 

 

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

 

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Winter berries of the north country

Photo by Jeff

 

 

 

"There was the smell of all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious all day and were now waking."

---Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

 

 

 

 

Candy Cane and Mandarin-a colorful pair on a foggy overcast day

October 18, 2009

Photo by BT

     

 

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
 
----Elliott Erwitt

 

 

West Coast Lady

October 8, 2009

 

 

 

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine."

 

 

---Jeffrey Glassberg

 

 

Bravo Pink

September 18, 2009

 

     
"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you............."

---Elliott Erwitt

 

 

Tiger Cat back for a visit

October 8, 2009

 

 

"Cats are independent, beautiful, and when they know you, they love you!"

 

------BT

 

 

 

A pair of Hawks soaring over the eucalyptus trees

October 3, 2009

A Soaring Red-Tail

 

 The Red Tail Hawk,

 

Soaring high above

 

On the thermals'

 

Views its domain from

 

Its vast vantage point,

 

Searching the hills

 

For sustenence.

 

We who are earthbound

 

Cannot imagine its environment

 

Above the earth so high in the sky.

 

Flying free in the space of time.

 

----BT

 

 

Rocky Mountain Violet

October 3, 2009

 

 

"Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it."

 

----A. D. Coleman

 

Candy Cane

October 3, 2009

 

 

"I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."

 

-----Wynn Bullock

 

Red and White

October 3, 2009

 

 

"I paint with my lens."

--Roloff Beny

 

 

 

Picasso

October 3, 2009

 

 

.Instead of just recording reality,

photographs have become the norm

for the way things appear to us ­

thereby changing the very idea of reality.

 

---Susan Sontag

 

Spider Web on the Privet hedge

October 4, 2009

 

 

To make enduring photographs,

one must see with one's mind's eyes,

for the heart and the mind

are the true lens of the camera.

--Yousuf Karsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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