FotoQuote of the Day [04/20/2011]

I'm starting a series in my blog. I wanted to write something longer, like an article on my photography, but this was easier to write. It's been 2 years and a half since I purchased my first digital SLR. I've shot more than 80,000 with it, and I now have my second DSLR. I read a lot about the subject, bought a lot of books (mostly second-hand from Booksale), and kept on shooting and shooting until I got better. Not that I am really good already, but "improving" is such a good-sounding word. So I'm giving the first FotoQuote of the Day.

"What is good in a photograph if it's so simple? Truth is, therein lies the difficulty; for if a photograph were to be simple, it has to be frank, straightforward, and just tell its story. It has to be obvious. In short, it has to be simple. Good photographs are almost always simple. In fact, the best photographs have always been simple. Now whoever said keeping things simple is always easy?"

A boy follows as his mother processes her clearance at NBI in Iloilo. 2011.