I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
— Trent Parke
Bashful Inspirational Photography quotations
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.
The body says what words cannot.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again.
You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting.
Beyond that is is just a trick.
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you.
If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong.
It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.