m3zzaluna:

“the printing of this negative requires a bit of control because, as one can imagine, the brightness of the sun’s rays dominates the negative, requiring the holding back, as we put it, of the darker areas during printing to allow the full development of the effect of the sun coming through the smoke.” *
the street sweeper, 1966
photo by barry goldwater, thank you burnedshoes
“there is almost nothing that does not signal loneliness, then loveliness, then something connecting all we will become. all around us the luminous passage of the air, the flat, wet gold of the leaves.”
“we must bring our own light to the darkness. nobody is going to do it for us,”
journalofanobody:

Canadian Wildflowers, Tom Thomson, 1915
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ― John Muir”
yama-bato:

© Aaron Siskind / Coutesy of Friends of Photography
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“Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free”