great egret by Timothy Rodgers
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.
~ Susan Meiselas
(Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection)
One evening last week Tim took the camera down to the beach and the salt pond and came home with these beautiful shots! I’m pretty sure the bird above is a black-crowned night heron, but if I’m wrong I hope someone will correct me…
The swan, like the soul of the poet,
By the dull world is ill understood.
~ Heinrich Heine
(Early Poems, Evening Songs)
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~ Ansel Adams
(3000 Astounding Quotes)
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
~ Dorothea Lange
(Ancestors in the Attic: Making Family Memorabilia into History)
The photographs are wonderful Tim; and the quotes to go with them Barbara capture the essence of photographer and the camera beautifully!
Thank you so much, Jeff! (I will pass along your compliment to Tim.) 🙂
Barbara, you are most welcome!
Thanks Jeff. Sometimes I find myself in the right place, at the right time, with a camera, and poof!
I know what is like! Many times the best photographs are unplanned magic. Well done Tim!
All beautiful pictures! Yes, that is a Balck-crowned Night Heron.
Thank you, Tiny! Thanks for the positive identification, too. (I think I am getting better at it.) 🙂