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"Landscape  photography is  the  supreme  test
    of  the  photographer,
     and  often  the  supreme  disappointment."

Quote  by  photographer,  Ansel Adams.


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"One  advantage  of  photography
      is  that it is  visual
     and  can  transcend  language."

Quote  by  photographer ,  Lisa Kristine.


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 I have up my "Greeting Card Rack" ,  back up in the DeFuniak Springs Art Co-op Gallery.

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This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"To  me,
     photography  is  the  simultaneous  recognition,
       in  a  fraction  of  a  second ,
      of  the  significance  of  an  event."

Quote  by  photographer  , Henri Cartier-Bresson.


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Another fall day on Sand Pond at the Pine Log State  Forest Park
 just  south  of Ebro Florida. Trying to get fall colors in the
   cypress  trees and reflections in the pond.

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This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"It  is  my  intention to  present  through  the  medium
  of  photography -
intuitive  observations of  the  natural  world 
which  may  have  meaning  to  the  spectators.

Quote  by  photographer , Ansel Adams,


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A raining November day.
Went looking for fall colors along the
Choctawhatchee River at the CowFord Landing on Hwy 20.
I took a great photographer's advice.
When is the best time to photograph something?
When a camera is in your hand !


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Ponce de Leon Springs in Ponce De Leon Florida.
 Even in November green plants everywhere.
No frost here yet,
 and there where even folks in the spring run wading around today!
A nice place to visit , even if it just for
  a few minutes.

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography  is  a  way  of  putting  distance
    between  myself  and  the  work  which
       sometimes  helps  me  to  see  more  clearly
   what  it  is  I  have  made."

Quote  by  photographer , Andy Goldsworthy.


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Started about 8am this morning. Finished up shooting around 5pm.
Sometimes weddings can make for a long day.

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I was coming back from looking at a location of a wedding I am to shoot
and  the sun was about to set.

For a change I had a little extra time.
I have not did any processing yet.
Maybe PSE15 or Lightroom?

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography can only represent the present.
    Once  photographed ,
     the  subject  becomes  part  of  the  past."

Quote  by  photographer , Berenice Abbott.


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Today at the Fall Harvest Festival at the Chautauqua Winery.
Trying it one more time.
For those who stopped by, a Big THANK YOU!!

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"Your  photography  is  a  record  of
    your  living,
    for  anyone  who  really  sees."

Quote  by  photographer , Paul Strand.


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography  was  a  blessing,
     because  it  filled  my  time."

Quote  by  photographer , Jessica Lange.


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Another early morning out shooting.
On the Choctawhatchee Bay , at the
Choctaw Beach Park in Walton County Florida.
The two gentlemen had just launched their  fishing boat
and slid into the frame.


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Walton County Park , Britton Hill , The naturally highest location in Florida.

Was shooting sunrise , heard something , got wet!

Did not know the County Public Works had installed sprinklers!


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"Photography  helps  people  see."

Quote by photographer , Berenice Abbott

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"Contrast , is  what  makes
   photography   interesting."

Quote by photographer ,Conrad  Hall.

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A good  morning to,
     set down , cup of coffee , de-stress,


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"I'm a photographer, period.
   I  love photography , the  immediacy  of it.
   I  like  the  craft,  the idea  of  saying
    'I'm   a   photographer.'

Quote  by  photographer , David LaChapelle.

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                Another shot from the Argyle Volunteer Fire Department training night.
 Every community has a fire department which provides all sorts of photographic opportunity's.


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography  is  the  easiest  medium  with  which  to  be
      merely competent.
  Almost  anybody  can  be   competent.
It's  the  hardest  medium  in  which  to  have  some  sort  of
    personal  vision  and  to have  a  signature  style."

Quote by  photographer , Chuck Close.

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Know  your  equipment  inside  out ,
   so the  camera  doesn't  become  a  barrier.
 Become  fully  involved  with  your  subject :
  give  it  100%  of  your  concentration."

Quote  by  photographer  Bob Holmes.


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"Photography  used  to be not  for  the  faint  of  heart.
   Its  rigors  would  weed  out  the
          not-so-committed  pretty  quickly.
   You  had  to  crank  the F-Stop  ring  yourself!"

Quote  by  photographer ,  Joe McNally


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Some times it does not take much to get another shot.
This was take the same morning as my posting last week.
Just a few minutes later and about 45degrees to the right.
And still was having problems with the lens on the camera fogging up.

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"I think a  photograph , of whatever  it might  be
    a landscape , a person - requires  personal  involvement.
     That  means  knowing  your  subject ,
 not  just  snapping  at  whats  in  front  of  you."

Quote  by photographer , Fans Lanting

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Early morning at a small Walton County Park on the South side of the Choctawhatchee Bay.
It was very humid and when I took my camera out and mounted it on the tripod , the lens started fogging up bad. Take a shot and wipe/ take a shot and wipe , was a routine thing the whole time!


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"In  photography ,
       there  is  a  reality  so  subtle  that
          it  becomes  more  real  than
           reality."

Quote  by  photographer , Alfred  Stieglitz


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"I've  always  believed  that  photography
   is  a  way  to  shape  human
      perception."

Quote by photographer , James Balog.



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Out at a local event Northwest Florida "Watermelon Festival ", in Chipley Florida.
Snap shots at a car show they were having there  , and for got my camera bag , polarizer filters.
Guess what, got reflections  of me. O well maybe next time?

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This Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,


"Photography is  a  kind  of  virtual  reality,
   and  it  helps  if  you  can  create
   the  illusion  of  being  in  an
    interesting  world."

Quote  by  photographer, Steven Pinker.


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This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote;

"It is my intention to  present
     through  the  medium of  photography,
   intuitive  observations  of  the  natural  world
   which may have  meaning  to the  spectators."

Quote  by  photographer , Ansel Adams


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Weekend trip to Valdosta , Georgia. Shooting pictures like a tourist. DownTown Valdosta has a lot of photo opportunities.


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One of the spot on the Choctawhatchee Bay that I have scouted out last week.

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"Our  pictures are  our  footprints.
    It's  the  best  way  to  tell  people
       we  were  here."

By  photographer  , Joe  McNally


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Recently I got up very early and drove to the Choctawhatchee Bay to scout out a few locations for sunrise and sunset photos. I found several location that had promise are owned by Walton County that are right on the "Bay". I did a few test shots and  made a bunch of notes and hopefully will be able to return to each of them soon.


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote.

 "Becoming a professional artist  takes
     talent  and  perseverance,
    even  more  so  when  the  field  is
           Photography."

Quote  by  photographer , Clyde Butcher.


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SnapShots from the 2017 Walton High School Graduation 19 May 2017

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"You've  got  to  push  yourself  harder.
   You've  got  to  start  looking  for  pictures  nobody
    else  could  take.
   You've  got  to  take  the  tools  you  have
       and  probe  deeper."

By  photographer, William  Albert  Allard.


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Shooting and Working on senior portraits  today.

In the local area we have very good  backdrops for
 portraits of all kinds.
Like Lake Defuniak, the down town area,
the Walton-DeFuniak Library,
 the old Ritz Theater, and unique buildings .

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This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"I  believe photography  can  be  an  art
   and  I  want  to  give  everything  to  help  achieve it.
    There  is  only  you  and  your  camera,
  the  limitations  of  your  photography  are  in  yourself,
            for  what  we  see  is  only  what  we  are."

By  photographer , Ernst Hass


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 Remember to get up , get out , and  shoot  something!

  I  would  like  to  thank every one who came  to
Peddler,s  Alley  and  stopped  by our booth.

We had  a great  time !

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"One of the biggest  mistakes  a  photographer  can  make , is  to  look  at  the  real  world  and  cling  to  the  vain  hope  that  the  next  time  his  film  will  somehow  bear  a  closer  resemblance  to  it."

By  photographer , Galen Rowell


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May 6 2017
We will have a booth at "Peddler,s  Alley"  in DeFuniak Springs
 in the alley  way  between 6th and 10th streets .
It will be open from 8am till 1pm.
Post cards of local area scene's , custom greeting cards and
 5x7  and 8x10  mounted photo prints landscape and nature stuff.

Come see us.

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"If  you  want to be a  better  photographer,
   Stand  in  front  of  more  interesting  stuff."

Quote  by  photographer , Jim Richardson.


But isn't ,"interesting stuff",  like  "beauty",
   in the eyes of the beholder?

Can't  a  creative photographer,
 take  subject  that  is  dull and  boring  to  most  people ,
 photograph  it in a creative and different  way
 and  that subject be pleasing and beautiful  to others ?

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography  is  something  you  learn  to  love  very  quickly.
   I  know  that  many , many  things  are  going  to  ask  me
     to have  their  picture  taken  and  I  will  take  them  all."

Quote  by photographer , Jacques-Henri Lartigue


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  Remember  if  it  was  good  enough to  photograph,
    it  should  be  good  enough to  print.

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"So  now  almost  everyone  owns  a  camera.
     Yet ,  of  all the  commonplace  tools  available
      us,  the  SLR  camera  is  probability
             the  least  understood  and
             certainly  the  most  under-exploited."

By Photographer , Sam Haskins


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                         Friday  evening  at the  DownTown Art Night
                       on  Baldwin Ave  in  DeFuniak  Sprigs  Florida.
                         At   Our Photo/Art  Booth   we  had  a  great  time
                             and  even sold a few  things.

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

The mission  of  photography
  is  to  explain  man  to  man and each  to himself.
  And  that  is  the  most  complicated  thing  on  earth.

By  photographer  , Edward Steichen,


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We will be having our booth up at the
    "DownTown Art Night"
 in DeFuniak Springs, Florida
  some where on  Baldwin Ave.
  We  will be there at about 5 to 9pm.
 Post cards , greeting cards, mounted prints
      and a few framed ones.

Stop by and see us,

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote.

   "At forty-two , I decided to become a photographer because it
      offered a means  of  creative thought and action.
      I  didn't  rationalize  this , I just  felt it  intuitively
       and  followed  my  intuition,
              which  I  have  never  regretted."

Photographer , Wynn Bullock.


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Since  1873 , I have been  back four or five times.
I have used the best cameras  and the most  sensitive
emulsions on the market.
I have snapped  my shutter , morning  , noon  and  afternoon.
I have  never  come close to matching those first plates.

By photographer , William  Henry  Jackson


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Something else to photograph.
Each local area sometimes has things like car shows.
The local car club, Chautauqua Cruisers this past weekend
 had one in along with  a tractor show and pull,
 at the Pleasant Ridge Arena.

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"As photographer,s , we are confronted each and every day
           with  a  wide  array  of choices .
          Most  of  us  have  the experience of being paralyzed  with
         indecision  when confronted with all  the  choices  about
                               what  can  be  photographed."

By  photographer , Harold Davis.


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  Remember to "Get up and Shoot  Something."

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

"My  wealth  is  measured  not  in  money  but  in  photographs,
      not in  quantity  but  in  creativity."

By  photographer , Destin Sparks.



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    Remember to get up and go shoot something!

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote

" The mystery is not in the technique , it's  in  each  of us.
   What  is  exciting  are  photographs that  say
            something  in  a  new  manner,
      not  for  the  sake  of  being  different,
      but  because  the  individual  is  different
        and  the  individual  express  himself."

By photographer , Harry Callahan



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Yes  ,proof I  do get out and shoot something!
My photo buddy , Don Colin shot me while we were
 trying to go to the Tilley Landing, Walton County Florida.

This Week's Photographer's Quote

This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Photography  is  pretty  simple  stuff.
    You  just  react  to  what  you  see ,
      and  take  many  , many  pictures. "

Quote  by , Photographer Elliott  Erwitt


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Every  photograph  that  is  made  whether  by  one  who considers himself a professional,  or by the tourist  who  points his snapshot camera and pushes a button , is  a  response  to  the exterior  world,  to  something perceived  outside  himself  by  the  person  who  operates  the  camera."

By  photographer , Eliot Porter


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Don Colin and I was  not able to get into Tilley Landing or Lost Lakes in the Choctawhatchee River
this  morning  , there  was  too  much  water still  flowing  over  the road  into it. So We  did a  little  swamp photography along  the road.


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  Yes , we  got out and  shot something!


 

Early morning at Lake DeFuniak  ducks headed out onto the lake.


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  Don't  forget to get out and shoot  something , I did !

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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"I  think  that  the  photographer  must  completely
          control  his  picture
    and  bring  to  it  all  his  personality,
      and  in  this  area  most  photographs
   never  transcend  being  just  snapshots."

By  photographer ,  Duane  Michals



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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

  "I never  have  taken  a  picture I've  intended.
     They've  always  been  better  or  worse."

By  photographer , Diane Arbus.



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Another shot , same spot , same morning , different  direction.

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Early January morning at the Northeast corner of the Choctawhatchee Bay.

and yes , I know the horizon is off, I have not learned how to straighten it yet!


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Our  pictures  are  our  footprints.
      It's  the  best  way  to  tell people
          we  were   here."

By  photographer, Joe McNally


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  And  don't forget  to   get up and  go  shoot  something!

      Yes , I  need  to follow  my  own  Advice!

Checking the training fires . Are they ready ?


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This  Week,s  Photographer,s  Quote,

"Only  in  black and white  can  I  see  the  design  and  textures.
     I  don't  consider  color  photography art.
     Black  and  white  is  an  interpretation .
     Color  is  a  duplication."

By  Photographer  Clyde  Butcher.

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