Lens View of Ukiah

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer.

You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things.

But in photography everything is so ordinary;

it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

~ David Bailey

As you will see in the following pictures, I'm still learning to see the ordinary. It's a damn good thing I'm not trying to earn a living with a camera!

I really, really, really need to get my ass into some photography classes!

The fence and fern I took at somebody's house. I was walking past the side of the house that led to the backyard and saw what I thought would make a pretty cool picture.

The window and ivy picture was taken in downtown Ukiah. On State Street there is this old building that used to be a hotel. It is all boarded up. I'm surprised all of the homeless people in this town haven't turned it into a little shanty town.

This last one in black & white was taken at McGarvey Park. I wanted to take a picture of this yesterday, but my battery died. It didn't turn out quite as I thought it would. But that is where having taken some classes would come in handy.

The virtue of the camera is not the power

it has to transform the photographer into an artist,

but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

~ Brooks Anderson