Andy_Tanguay's photostream  

I am simply a vessel through which photographic mediocrity flows.

Shoot em all and let god sort them out...just like grandpa used to say. I shoot and shoot and shoot, then come home and throw 80% of them out and keep the creamy nougat center.

I like both ends of the photo spectrum...I love my big digital, and I love my old Mamiya and Speedgraphic film cameras. I'm a big fan of shallow depth of field. I'm a 3D animator by trade, and depth of field is pretty much something you can't have in computer animation...so that may be why I like it so much.

I have no problem Photoshopping something into the shape I want it. I am not a purest at all. Blasphemy to some, but I don't care.

Flickr is the the coolest thing. Taking pictures is the first thing I've done in a long time that is purely for the fun of it. I don't think about who will like it, who would buy it, none of that crap. I just really like shooting what I like to shoot. I hate to say it, but it's as close to an 'artform' that I think I can handle. I take my pictures and I throw them up there and see what people like. I'm often surprised to see people like photos I didn't think much of...on the flip side, I'm surprised when no one seems to like something I thought was excellent.

Also a proud member of 'GO! Team Holga" the Ann Arbor Area Crappy Camera Club, and founding member of The PLF...the Photo Liberation Front.

I'm also one of fifteen people on Flickr who do not have a picture of a cat anywhere in their photos. We're a small but dedicated group.



Here are a couple of cool quotes from great photographers:


"...the qualities that make for an interesting picture are fairly simple, it must be evocative, mysterious and at the same time realistic."

-Walker Evans



"If you could make one really great photograph a year, in fifteen years you would have 15 really great photographs."

-Saul Leiter


"You get into photography the same way you get into being a prostitute. First you do for fun, then you do it for friends, then you do it for money.”

-Dean Collins