SweetNaomi ReCreations : July 2012

“You don’t Take a Photograph.

You ask, Quietly, to Borrow it.”

Russ has been browsing the internet, discovering an absolutely amazing collection of old Photographs from Puerto Peñasco history. I love the Nostalgia and pure Romance of black and white photography! I hope that you enjoy these photos. And the somewhat quirky quotes that I found to go along with them!

~ Naomi

“Hark, now hear the Sailors cry,
Smell the sea, and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly...”
~ Van Morrison

"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph people in Black and White,
you photograph their souls!”
~ Ted Grant

“I just met a girl named Maria

And suddenly that name

Will never be the same to me

Maria I just kissed a girl named Maria

And suddenly I found How wonderful a sound Can be!”

~ "Maria" lyrics

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean,

loves the electric power she felt

with each breath of wet, briny air.”
~ Holly Black

"When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself
and the people you photograph,
when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears,
you will know you are on the right track."

~ Arthur Fellig

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
~ Robert Frank

“There's something strange and powerful
about black-and-white imagery.”

~ Stefan Kanfer

“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges
from the good old days.”

~ Doug Larson

“To me, photography is an art of observation.
It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…
I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see
and everything to do with the way you see them”.

~ Elliott Erwitt

“The creative act lasts but a brief moment,
a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you
to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

“In every age “the good old days” were a myth.
No one ever thought they were good at the time.
For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable
to the people who lived through them.”

~ Brooks Atkinson

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

~ Tennessee Williams

“Memory is a complicated thing,
a relative to truth, but not its twin.”

~ Barbara Kingsolver

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,
the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”

~ The Wonder Years TV show

"The photograph itself doesn’t interest me.
I want only to capture a minute part of reality."

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity.
I see something special and show it to the camera.
A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it.
Then it is theirs."

~ Sam Abell