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"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves." <3

~ James Kavanaugh

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"Everything we experience has the potential to inspire, we just have to let it." ~ Brooke Shaden

"Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think." ~ Socrates

My greatest inspirations in Photography:
Dan Ballard: dan4242.zenfolio.com/
Jim Patterson: www.fluidr.com/photos/jimpatterson
Stephen Oachs: www.flickriver.com/photos/stephenoachs/popular-interesting/
Cody Spencer: www.flickr.com/photos/chickengocluck/
Chris Orwig: www.chrisorwig.com/
and last but not least, the talented, legendary Berenice Abbott, which also brings me to, last, but far from least, Hank O'Neal ~ www.hankoneal.com

“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times – the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.” ~ Berenice Abbott




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Etching life
in its purest form
on a public canvas;
Telling my stories
with captured moments;
images in time.
Time, both eternal
yet heartbreakingly transient.
Limited exposure
of the world,
seen through my eyes.
This is My life,
at any given moment.

~ Deborah Ebbeling

I photograph, mostly to relax. Because I know photography is subjective and what pleases my eye doesn't always appeal to another. So it seems I do it primarily for myself. I am happiest with my images when I'm under no pressure to produce. I want the important people in my life, mostly my daughter, to remember the small moments, right along with the big ones, and to be cognizant of all the beauty in this little world we live in and I want people to be thankful and appreciative of it. Because most days, I feel like its all lost in the haste of the society we live in these days. With the exception of that poem above, I can't write to save my life (I so badly wish I was born with a pen in my hand), so I try my best to express my feelings with images. Because I don't ever want to forget these precious gifts we're all given.