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Old 12-24-2007, 12:27 PM   #21 (permalink)
 
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Flickr is the Oort Cloud of photography.
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I always subscribed to the equation L = P + O where L-luck, P-preparedness and O-opportunity.
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Old 12-24-2007, 12:50 PM   #23 (permalink)
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If I remember correctly, Ansel Adams said Luck favors the prepared. which goes along with severl other one liners that we like to use.

I have always felt and tell my students, the harder one works the luckier they get.

basically the same thought.
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Old 12-24-2007, 12:54 PM   #24 (permalink)
 
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I love this: "Flickr is the Oort Cloud of photography."
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"f-16 and be there." That was HCB wasn't it?
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Old 12-24-2007, 02:10 PM   #26 (permalink)
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the saying is f8 and be there
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Old 12-24-2007, 02:15 PM   #27 (permalink)
 
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Flickr is the Oort Cloud of photography.
.....is it that far out?

Great quote, love it
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Old 12-24-2007, 02:26 PM   #28 (permalink)
 
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"f-16 and be there." That was HCB wasn't it?
No, that's a USAF thing.
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Old 12-24-2007, 02:33 PM   #29 (permalink)
 
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Is it just photography in which this is true? Someone else who wasn't a photographer once said "art loves chance and chance loves art" (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics).
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Aristotle - Mr. Moderation himself - would never have made a good photographer.

What did he know, anyway?
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