Fantod's photostream  

** If you don't post at least mostly your own photos, I probably won't add you as a contact. If your icon is blank, I probably won't add you. If you have no photos that can be seen by me, I probably won't add you, and if you "favorite" any of my photos and any of the aforementioned conditions hold, I'll probably block you. If you seem to me to be a collector rather than a photographer, I will probably block you.**



I'm just your basic Southern boy with eclectic interests, a pretty good camera, and aspirations for making great pictures. I've been fascinated with photography for as long as I can remember and hope to take my hobby to a higher level. This photostream represents my growth (I hope) as a photographer. People are my favorite subjects, but so far I'm better at making candid portraits than posed ones. Landscapes seem to be what I'm best at right now. I also like to make images of buildings and architecture, sports, landscapes, nature, my beagle Pooky, and other things that catch my eye. I welcome constructive comments. My favorite beverage is coffee. I can sleep when I'm dead. Beer is a close second. As Ben Franklin said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

I post only photographs to which I own the rights (except where otherwise noted). Please do not copy, print, post, or otherwise reproduce these photos without my consent.

"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." -- Garry Winogrand

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." -- Samuel Johnson

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Peter Lindbergh

“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.” - Alfred Eisenstaedt

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.” -David LaChapelle

"The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... . In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif." — Henri Cartier-Bresson



I'm libertarian.

I'm over 21.