Gimikera Is In

Beach camping @ Anawangin, Zambales

When I first saw pictures of Anawangin, Zambales, showing pics of pine trees growing near a white sandy beach, I couldn't believe my eyes. Pine trees are known to grow mainly in cold temperatures such as Baguio but apparently, they can survive in hot temperatures as well.

To see is to believe so I packed my trusty backpack, underwater gear and my digicam Canon A430 to check out the famed Anawangin cove in Zambales. It was my first time to join a Photoholic tour organized by Travel Factor. This one-year old company is composed of yuppies who organize trips regularly on top of their full-time jobs.

During the long weekend (April 5-7, 2008), they had three trips scheduled: Northern Exposure in Ilocos, Caramoan plus wakeboarding and our beach camping escapade. I packed all my clothes as early as Wednesday night but I didn't read through the detailed itinerary so I left out important gear--eating utensils and a plate!

When we passed by the market of San Antonio, Zambales, I was able to buy the necessary utensils and off we went to Pundaquit where Canoe Beach Resort is located.

We ate lunch before heading to Anawangin Cove via a four-seater boat. As soon as we saw the beach front, we were amazed by the fine sand, the evergreen pine trees, the lush mountains on either side of the island and clear blue waters. Several beach bums were playing frisbee while others were trying their hand (or more appropriately feet) at skimboarding.

After setting up our tents, we explored the nearby river, which gave a beautiful view of the mountain behind it.

When we arrived at Anawangin, the beach front was already occupied by a lot of tents so we settled in the pine trees forest just two minutes away from the beach. Our area in Anawangin cove had two bathrooms, two changing rooms, and two waterpumps. Use of these facilities are included in the P50 environmental fee paid to the caretaker of the island. I wasn't able to get the number of the caretaker since there is no cellphone signal on Anawangin and it is not equipped with electricity. When going to the island, bring strong flashlights and possibly a pail so so you won't have problems getting water.

The mountaineers of Outdoor Addicts prepared our meals and set up our tents and they were very efficient about it.

Our meals were hot and satisfying. But what really blew me away was the fact that they brought a hot plate for the spicy sisig during our inuman session in Anawangin.

The card game introduced by Alli was such a laugh trip. You pick a card from the deck and you have to stick it in your forehead to let others see your card but you can't look at it yourself. You must base your decision to keep or change your card based on the reactions of your fellow card players. You are allowed up to 2 changes. The lowest card is the two of clubs while the highest card is the Ace of diamonds. The person with the lowest card has to drink Absolut citron (also courtesy of Alli).

Aside from drinking Absolut, we also got to drink Mojitos, which was served in a big Absolute mineral bottle. We wrapped up at around 1 am and it was so hot so I decided to sleep outside the tent. By 3 am, it got so cold so I snuggled back into the tent. Several others went stargazing and slept at the beach.

All these and more are enough reasons to go see Anawangin yourself.

The next morning, we explored a mini-cave on the left side of the island. When the sun came up, it cast a golden glow on the mountainside, resulting in a breathtaking view.

We left Anawangin cove at around 10 am and proceeded to Capones island where we trekked around 20 minutes to reach a run-down lighthouse. The incredible view and strong wind on top of the lighthouse are enough reasons to relax and chill (or to use the word coined by Travel Factor, chillax).

This trip also marks the first time I tried skimboarding and it was such a laughtrip as well. You have to read the waves well and be able to steady yourself on the skimboard as you ride the surf.

LEGEND OF ANAWANGIN. A bangkero in Anawangin told the interesting story how Anawangin was created. He said that the campsite area used to be covered by the sea. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in 1991, the ashfall created a cove that was eventually rehabilitated and pine trees came to be on the island. Since then, it has become one of the most popular tourist spots in the country.

If you want to join future trips of Travel Factor, feel free to visit their website at www.thetravelfactor.multiply.com

Jocie at Chika Minute

I was pleasantly surprised to see myself in the video section of PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal). My fellow editor Rommel and I were present at the press conference of the comedy movie Manay Po 2: Overload held at the Imperial Palace Suites last March 13.

Just like in school, I was taking down notes furiously so I didn't notice that the camera crew of GMA-7 had positioned itself behind us and took footage of the cast members including Rufa Mae Quinto, Cherry Pie Picache, Polo Ravales, John Prats, and Jiro Manio, among many others.

It also gave me the chance to bond with Giselle Sanchez, who refers to me as her "pretty schoolmate" since we both went to UP Diliman. She even remembered that I was in the same batch as Izel (more popularly known as Tuesday Vargas).

But the highlight of the evening was our deep conversation with Rufa Mae, who was such a blast to talk with. She was very open about the new man in her life whom she fondly calls "Ken" since he calls her as "Barbie." Come to think of it, Rufa Mae can be considered the Barbie of the Philippines. After our conversation, Rufa Mae hugged me and said, "I had fun!" I had fun too!

Check out the PEP video here:

http://www.pep.ph/videos/1117/Meet-Rufa-Mae-Quinto's-new-boyfriend

PEP Editoryal--Isang taon na po tayo!

We look back at our humble beginnings and take note of what we have achieved and what we have yet to accomplish.

Isang taon na po tayo!

Today, exactly a year ago, PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) launched into cyberspace. We’re letting our hair down by counting the ways we have grown and we’re taking stock. To all you PEP addicts and newcomers alike, here’s why PEP is bigger than the sum of its parts.

When we started on February 28, 2007, we had so little.

Only five people were updating the site daily. It had an average of two breaking news per day and one gallery of photos per week. Invitation to presscons and events? Zero. Only a handful of showbiz denizens knew about this bagong salta called PEP.

Slowly, showbizlandia and the public at large began to take notice. Presscon invitations trickled in. Aficionados of local entertainment started making www.pep.ph their daily habit—office workers and homemakers taking a breather, Pinoy immigrants abroad and Overseas Filipino Workers keeping abreast of the latest news back home.

THE LEAP. More is better.

The team of editors and staff writers, plus a growing network of contributors, began publishing 10 to 14 showbiz news items per day in the Breaking News section—certainly PEP’s strongest link.

And so, readers found more reason to check out the site several times a day. The Comments column below each breaking news report, especially about this couple’s breakup or that career break, grew longer and more intense by the hour. Give a hand to the community of self-identified “PEPsters,” who also make forays into the other sections.

PEP’s staff writers and techies also worked on beefing up the Gallery and Video sections. The target was to put out new sets of photos and videos daily.

Eventually, we brought in more new sections to satisfy the Pinoy fondness for nostalgia, discovery, and living it up. Looking Back articles reminisce about old movies or past TV shows or an actor’s past career.  PEP Finder would be similarly nostalgic except that it’s a rediscovery of stars long gone into other careers and now doing their own thing away from the showbiz glare. We like to think these articles contribute to the dynamic history of film and television. Knowing the current raves in the party scene through Events is an added attraction.

The Poll, which used to tackle one showbiz issue every week, now puts out three hot topics. It’s another way to tease out public opinion and the fans’ reactions, aside from the PEPsters’ feedback.

PEP’s blog town is also on the rise. In spite of their hectic schedules, more celebrity bloggers have joined. To date, PEP proudly features John “Sweet” Lapus, Candy Pangilinan, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Jolina Magdangal, and veteran journalist Ces Evangelista as the exciting writers who share their personal experiences, insights, sometimes even secrets.

THE SPRINT. Speed and accuracy becomes the practice.

Happily, we managed to bring you several “First Read on PEP” items and “PEP Exclusives” last year.

Remember when PEP broke the news about Dennis Trillo being the dad of Carlene Aguilar’s baby? The pregnancy of Camille Prats and Jennylyn Mercado? The controversies that surrounded Gretchen Barretto? The hush-hush on Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz’s split?

We’re proud, ehem, of our well-researched investigative “PEP Special Reports,” like Angel Locsin’s flight from GMA-7 to ABS-CBN and the saga involving David Bunevacz and Beverly Hills 6750.

PEP is now a very visible player in the entertainment field.

THE HEAVE. Quality becomes the goal.

We like to make every log-on session worth every PEPster’s precious time. We encapsulate anything found in the entertainment scene—the real and the reel, the glam and the glum, the good and bad news, the serious and fun stuff, the newbies and veterans, the hook-ups and breakups, and almost every aspect of the ever busy, dynamic world of showbiz.

Top Lists, which now gets updated twice a week, was introduced last year. We now have PEP’s Corner where readers could get their weekly dose of insights from the editorial team, blind items from the Peeping Toms, fun from the PEP Who, and the good deeds of our favorite celebrities via Thumbs Up.

PEP’s “Comments” section has also become an instant people meter. Celebrities themselves check it out for the feedback—and sometimes, critique—of showbiz fanatics. With the help of our diligent moderators, the comments column below each article is earning its reputation as a well of insights.

On the side, PEPsters now receive their PEP Log, the condensed version of the site, and a weekly celebrity dish for those who are busy with their work. Those who want to get flash showbiz news via their mobile phones can now subscribe thru PEP Mobile by keying in PEP ON and sending to 4627.

And it was September 2007 that PEP launched its revamped look—from its pristine white background, more colors were added to capture the colorful world of showbiz.

THE THRUST. And as we celebrate our first official year as an entertainment website—we keep the news meter always up, the fun button always blinking, and the interaction scale always working.

Negotiations with ABS-CBN are in the works so readers can all look forward to video content of their favorite Kapamilya shows.

The Entertainment Guide will double its number of daily updates and reviews. “Top Charts” will soon be launched, featuring the hottest hits in the music scene, the box-office winners in moviedom, and the most talked-about television shows.

Of course, a surprise for the PEPsters is also in the offing. Next month, you will have more reasons to get hooked and be involved. A section called PEParazzi will rock the world of showbiz aficionados.

When we started, we had so little. Now, we are making more than 1,000,000 unique users happy.

PEP is here to stay, and we hope you do the same. Cheers!

Boracay barkada trip--perfect way to end 2007!

When my best friend Lyra went abroad, I was crushed. I didn't know how I would function without our (almost) daily phone calls to each other. I also missed going to their white mansion in Sampaloc. Whenever something came up, I would speedial her number to analyze everything just like two High School students are likely to do.

But with the use of Yahoo Messenger and email (I hope Lyra responds more often), we managed to keep in touch often. I did get the surprise of my life when she introduced us to her Fil-Am boyfriend Steve Serra since she never mentioned him before she arrived in December 2007.

Anyway, here's my account of our fun-filled stay in the tropical paradise of Boracay.

For photos, you may visit this Multiply album:

http://lagimikera.multiply.com/photos/album/61/Boracay_December_28-30_2007_


Nothing beats December of 2007--with nine dives and a free trip to Boracay--it's perfect!

My best friend Lyra arrived last December 24 after spending some time as a physical therapist abroad. Anthony and I went to their house to meet her boyfriend Steve (although I had met him previously during our gimik at Embassy Club with Lyra's brother Ram).

On December 28, all nine of us met at the Centennial Airport for our supposedly early flight to Caticlan. However, bad weather conditions in our destination delayed our flight and we had to wait six hours before boarding our new flight to Kalibo.

One van ride and a short boat ride later (which we shared with Karylle and Dingdong Dantes), we finally arrived in the tropical paradise of Boracay.

Our barkada and the Torreses checked in at The Tides, Station 2, near D'Mall. It is owned partly by Iza Calzado and Tim Yap but they weren't there during the holidays. For me, the best part was having free Internet connection since rentals cost P40-60 per hour on the island.

  On Saturday, I talked to Water Colors Dive Shop and luckily enough, there was a group diving in Friday's Rock that morning. After breakfast, Lyra and Steve had a 1 1/2 hour lecture for scuba diving. They went to Friday's Reef while I was with a group of foreigners in Friday's Rock.

We used a line to go down to 17 meters (51 feet) and we swam around a huge boulder where we saw fusiliers, trigger fishes and 18-inch red bass. It was fun feeding the hungry fish but they would bite into my hand as they searched for more bread.

As we swam from one coral patch to another, we saw blue anemone fish, black and white lionfish and a blue-banded sea snake winding itself on the ocean floor.

Dive time to date: 6 hours 16 minutes

Lyra was able to complete her dive but Steve wasn't comfortable underwater but they both got their certificates so I'm glad for them.


  After resting, the five of us--Lyra, Steve, Anthony, Eloisa and I--went sailing on a paraw.

As the sun set, we sailed off and relaxed on the hammocks laid out on the katig (rigger) of the sailboat. When I do go back to Bora, I hope to take the reins of the paraw and maneuver it myself. =)




This is our barkada (sans Omar) with the Torreses during dinner at Station 1


By Saturday evening, we went to two gimik spots: Club Paraw and Cocomangas. I liked the latter so much that I was left behind to dance the night away as Andrew E performed impromptu that night.

On Sunday morning, we went on a banana boat ride but thankfully, we didn't flip over. For Lyra's souvenir, I gave her a small bottle designed with colorful Boracay sand and she said it would add to her sand collection in the States.

After checking out of The Tides, we went to the airport and waited a few hours before boarding our flight home to Manila.

Despite everyone's contention that Bora is already too commercialized, there's really nothing wrong with enjoying the beauty of Mother Nature while making full use of modern-day conveniences.

I'm now an open water scuba diver!

Finally, I'm a certified PADI open water scuba diver!

I took up scuba diving classes in February 2007 but my dive instructor bailed out on me so I was forced to find another instructor for my checkout dive, which finally took place at Puerto Galera from December 1-2.

Four dives cost a cool P5,000 and I realized I need to buy a bigger mask since the one I'm using is too small for me. In fact, I even had to change masks with the divemaster under water since it wasn't clearing up.

Anyway, I've uploaded my underwater pics at Photobucket and Multiply accounts. Check them out here:

http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/jociepd/Puerto%20Galera%20underwater%20pics/

http://lagimikera.multiply.com/photos/album/58

These pics were taken using a waterproof case (costs only P500) and my trusty Kodak DC3200 1-megapixel camera that is five years old. =) I wasn't able to photograph the 12-inch puffer fishes, lionfish, eel, parrotfish, giant clams and other sea creatures.

Shallowest depth: 10 meters and deepest dive: 18 meters. Total dive time to date: 2 hours

PEP @ 1!

An acquaintance of mine told me recently after I had talked lengthily about my Senior Editor position at PEP, “You must really love your job, huh?”

I responded candidly by saying, “Life would be perfect if we had 48-hour days.”

I guess that’s how anyone would feel if their job loved them back. =) On the first anniversary of Philippine Entertainment Portal, it would be nice to reminisce about the humble beginnings of www.pep.ph

On 9/11, I officially joined the PEP team but were just working on a simple fuschia-colored site with the URL yesmagazine.com.ph

It just had Breaking News, Photo Galleries, and the Forums. We were a young team—most of us were just starting in the entertainment beat. There were two editors, three staff writers, an editorial assistant, and a photographer manning the site.

By November 15, the soft launch of PEP’s beta site took place. New sections were added such as my section, the Entertainment Guide, Celebrity Life, Views, and Videos. It was an overwhelming task to fill up all of the sections of the site. I was assigned to handle the five subsections of the e-guide, namely, Television, Movies, Indie, Music and Theater. Our workload grew and so did the team.

There are now four editors, a community editor, two staff writers, an editorial assistant, a web designer, and a photographer. We’re also accommodating stories from contributors and videos from TV networks.

It’s been a year since our company embarked on this experiment—and we’re looking forward to the challenges ahead as we continue our work as the online home of YES! Magazine.

Click here to recall PEP's firsts, facts, and feats.

Sad eyes

I've been restless lately and I don't know why.

I need a dose of creativity, anything to jumpstart my senses and fire up my imagination.

Why oh why is Mt. Pulag closed at a time when you want to scale it the most? =(

This empty feeling is even reflected in my eyes. Even when my lips are upturned into a smile, my eyes don't seem to agree.

Is it possible for someone to go through the quarterlife crisis twice? Nah. I'm pretty secure about my place in work and outside of work so it's probably not that.

There's an upcoming walkathon this November 18 (Sunday) at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife in Quezon City. I hope doing a bit of charity uplifts my spirit and bring the twinkle back in these sad eyes.

Cozying up with hunks in the Cosmo Bachelor Bash 2007

Seats and slots were limited in the 2007 Cosmo Bachelor Bash and some people even opted to leave the venue instead of standing around to wait for the program.

Too bad for them since it was a scorching night for fun, fearless ladies.

I was seated with girls and gays on the left side of the u-shaped ramp set up in NBC Tent last Thursday, September 6. The event, dubbed as "Flight 69" started at 10:15 pm and ended at 11:00 pm. Directed by Robbie Carmona, it featured eight out of the ten Cosmo Celebrity Centerfolds in the September 2007 issue of Cosmopolitan.

The gays joked that we could reach out and touch the toes of the ramp models. I almost lost my voice shouting when the centerfolds came out. Our photographer even caught me in action when he took this photo of me taking a photo of a model sporting faux fur.

For full details about that night, visit:

http://www.pep.ph/news/14681/Dingdong-Dantes-and-other-hunks-go-back-to-basics-for-the-2007-Cosmo-Bachelor-Bash

The sensual Dingdong Dantes, now known as Sergio in the GMA-7 telenovela Marimar, fulfilled the island fantasy of fun, fearless ladies for the 2007 Cosmo Bachelor Bash. He was one of the eight celebrity centerfolds who took part in the festivities last night, September 6, at the NBC Tent.

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Dingdong Dantes and other hunks go back to basics for the 2007 Cosmo Bachelor Bash

Jocelyn Dimaculangan

Friday, September 7, 2007
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What would you do if you were stranded on a deserted island with hot, hot hunks? Fun, fearless females would grab the opportunity and party until the wee hours of the morning. That is exactly what Cosmopolitan readers did during the 2007 Cosmo Bachelor Bash held last night, September 6, at the NBC Tent at the Fort, Taguig City.

Eight of the ten celebrity centerfolds took to the modeling ramp-cum-island paradise during the event, which was dubbed as "Flight 69."

Dingdong Dantes, Paolo Paraiso, Derek Ramsey, Luke Jickain, Bruno Folster, Joem Bascon, Marvin Raymundo, and Jon Avila were all half-naked as they proudly walked down the U-shaped ramp set up in the NBC Tent.

Unfortunately, Jake Cuenca and Alfred Vargas were unable to share the limelight with the other celebrity centerfolds because they had tapings scheduled that night.

UP Naming Mahal (new version)

In time for the State  University's centennial celebration, the University of the Philippines introduces this new alma mater song, replacing the one created by Nicanor Abelardo. It will be implemented systemwide by 2008, the centennial of UP.

UP Naming Mahal (new version)

UP naming mahal
Pamantasan ng bayan
Tinig ng masa
Ang siyang lagi nang pakikinggan

Malayong lupain
Di kailangang marating
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin

Silangang mapula
Sagisag magpakailanman
Ating ipaglaban
Laya ng diwa't kaisipan

Humayo't itanghal
Giting, tapang at dangal
Mabuhay ang lingkod ng taong bayan
Mabuhay ang lingkod ng taong bayan!

To listen to the song, visit my Multiply site.


Compare this with the original version:

U.P. Naming Mahal
Pamantasang hirang
Ang tinig namin
Sana'y inyong dinggin
Malayong lupain
Amin mang marating
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin

Luntian at pula
Sagisag magkailan man
Ating pagdiwang
Bulwagan ng dangal
Humayo't itanghal
Giting at tapang
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan

Inspirational Quotes for Photographers

Inspirational quotes for photographers:

Even though I'm just an amateur photography enthusiast, I learned a lot just by reading these quotes. This list from Rick Sammon is a good reminder when developing one's eye for photography.


"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man." ~Edward Steichen

"We see, hear, smell, and taste many things without noticing them at the time." ~Carl Jung

"Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me, are not a major concern." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Look for what you don't see." ~Rashid Elisha

"Creativity is a radical necessity, not a luxury." Jean Houston

"Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision."  ~Carlos Castaneda

"A photograph is always seen in some context; physical, remembered, imagined." ~Rashid Elisha

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of our eyes." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." ~Isaac Asimov

"Composition is the strongest way of seeing." ~Edward Weston

"Recording images serenity and beauty was a matter of devout
observance." ~Gordon Parks

"The so-called rules of composition are, in my mind, invalid,
irrelevant and immaterial." ~Ansel Adams

"I want my sitters to be noticed, not my work." Lord Snowden

"The eyes are the windows to the soul." ~Karsh of Ottawa

"I shut my eyes in order to see." ~Paul Gauguin

"Look at any landscape photograph. You see the shape of things, the mountains and trees and buildings, but not the sky." ~Kurt Koffka

"If I could tell the story in words, I would not have to lug around a camera." ~Lewis Hiene

"The soul never thinks without an image." ~Aristotle

"The best digital cameras have 6 to 16 million pixels. Our retina, consisting of rods and cones, has over 100 million sensors." ~Dr. Richard D. Zakia

"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption." ~André Bazin

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."  ~Man Ray

"Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations."  ~Mason  Cooley

"It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it." ~Somerset Maugham

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." ~Ansel Adams

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." ~Pablo Picasso

"I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print." ~Edward Weston

"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style." ~Anonymous

"I hear I forget. I see I remember. I do I understand." ~Confucius

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the
difference." ~Robert Frost

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence." ~Leopold Stokowski

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." ~Gary Collins

"Photography is like art because, like painting, it seeks beauty." ~Julia Margaret Cameron.

"Balance is the enemy of art." ~Richard Eyre

"Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals." ~Susan Sontag

"Practice is everything." ~Periander (Often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.")

"Perception is personal. We see what we see." ~Richard Fahey

"There is no audience as far as I am concerned. I am the audience." ~Joel Meyerowitz

"You know... that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -  a canvas - a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." ~Edward Steichen

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." ~John Updike

"If you just take a picture of what's there, it destroys the mystery, the magic." ~Art Kane

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do." ~A. C. Benso

"The art of creating is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ~Salman Rushdie

"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition." ~W. H. Auden

"It is imagination that gives shape to the universe." ~Barry Lopez

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." ~Jean Paul Sartre

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~Dorothea Lange

"Art is a line that makes us realize the truth." ~Pablo Picasso

"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum." ~Sir Arthur Eddington

"With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid
experience, sudden, compelling and inevitable." ~Ansel Adams

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

"I am not interested in nature; I'm interested in my own nature."  ~Arnold Sisken

"If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its
functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude." ~Charles Baudelaire

"Vertical columns, such as those found in Greek and Roman temples, look parallel from the ground because they are wider at the top than at the bottom." ~Joanne Kemp

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Not every light is true light. To the wise, the light of truth is
light itself." ~Tiruvalluvar

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." ~Anna Freud

"To see an object in space means to see it in context." ~Rudolf Arnheim

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.  ~Jean-Luc Godard

"The more one looks, the more one sees. And the more once sees, the better one knows where to look." ~Anonymous

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created." ~Edward Steichen

"God is in the details." ~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets." ~John Glenn

"Between the photographer and the subject there has to be a distance. The camera may intrude, trespass, distort, exploit." ~Susan Sontag

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man." ~Edward Steichen

"Don't you love it when some incredibly beautiful woman like Linda Evans or Cindy Crawford tells is that the real beauty secret if finding your inner light? No shit."  ~Marianne Williamson

"The street is full of humiliations to the proud." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying." ~Terence Donovan

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." ~Diane Arbus

"We can only recognize what we know."  ~E.H. Gombrich

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the
model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential
superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends." ~Ruth Bernhard

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." ~John Lennon

"Fun has a scared dimension." ~Adrian Diaz

"A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both." ~Anonymous

"It's never to late to be what you could have been." ~George Eliot

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." ~Thomas Alva Edison

"The limits of your language are the limits of your world." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I am still learning." ~Michelangelo

"Why don't you write books people can read?" ~Nora Joyce, to her husband James

"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado