“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
– Ralph Hattersley
Children portraits
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
Eudora Welty
Family shoot
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
— Linda McCartney
Pet shoot
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
— Irving Penn
Wedding shoot
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
– Robert Capa
Birthday shoot
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
David Alan Harvey
Outdoor shoot
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin
Couple's shoot
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
— Aaron Siskind
Maternity shoot
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
– Ambrose Bierce
Baby shower
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
– Scott Lorenzo
Exhibition shoot
“Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
Tara Chisolm
Event shoot
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous
Bridal shower and portrait shoot