Catchlight No.5: June 2011

6/30/11

Vintage

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. "

~ Jane Austen

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

~ William Shakespeare

6/29/11

The Taste of June

6/24/11

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are." - Ernst Haas

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching,of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

-Erin :)

6/23/11

A Time To Plant

"To every thing there a season and a time to every purpose under heaven: "

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

--Aristotle

6/21/11

"The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;

That is the Grasshopper's-- he takes the lead

In summer luxury, --he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills."

- John Keats

6/20/11

A World of Difference~ Children

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

~Walt Streightiff

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized." ~Margaret Atwood

"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."

~Author Unknown

6/19/11

The Mark of a Photographer

I thought I'd share a random photograph {though it is neither my week nor an assignment, but I thought you would all enjoy this}

Friday night we had a lovely little formal dinner. All the girls dressed up and we met for some photos. I spied Willow down on the ground getting a good shot of Abbie and laughed....

The mark of a true photographer is that she is more concerned for the getting the right shot then keeping her dress clean!

6/17/11

City of Bridges

Pittsburgh, called the City of Bridges, reportedly has more bridges than any other city in the world.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. - Bruce Jackson

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. - Christopher Dodd

- Erin :)

elephant dance

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant- An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!"

-Dr. Seuss

6/11/11

Confessions of a Shopaholic ( In Wide Screen )

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. "

"A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags... oh yes... oh yes. "

"Does your heart quicken when you see new merchandise in neatly stacked piles? "

6/10/11

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." - Amelia Earhart

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

The most effective way to do it, is to to do it. - Amelia Earhart

-Erin

6/9/11

lillian

{I was going to title this: "photoshop frustration." I had a beautiful collage of several photos for our theme this week, "cinematic photography" but because I was having photoshop issues I couldn't upload them. Here are only a few from a shoot I did in May titled "Lillian."}