Stefan Meinl

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.

Edward Weston

We will start with the word itself.... The word photography comes from the Greeks. Comprised of two words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw"), and means - "writing with light". Describing a method of recording images by the use of light, on a sensitive material (plate, film or digital sensor).

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Photographs can be used to lie, flatter, seduce, blackmail, or restrict human freedom. As mass-produced junk images they can debase taste and narcotize people to prefer the image to the experienced reality it represents. But photographs also can preserve, comfort, inform, and clarify. They can provide esthetic pleasure of the highest order and enlarge our vision of the universe.

- Arthur Goldsmith

A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. - Irving Penn