John M. Garrison - Photography

My Photography

I love combining photography with almost anything I am doing - whether it is taking landscapes of scenic vistas during my travels, or simply while spending time with my wonderful wife. These are usually images I am capturing just as I observe the scene, or as the event unfolds.

Macro and High Dynamic Range are two types of photogrpahy where I find myself doing more work outside the camera. The best macro shots require me to set up my tripod, select the right lens, and pay special consideration to the lighting. With HDR, a tripod is also critical and there is more significant post-processing involved as well.

Capturing the light of the World

And God said: "Let there be light," and there was light.

Genesis 1:3

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass.The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light, God guideth unto His light whome he will. And God speaketh to mankind in allegories, for God is knower of all things.

Quran 24:35

I am the light of the world.

- Jesus Chris, in John 9:5

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.

John Milton, Paradise Lost III. 1.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber in Lanterns and Lances‎ (1963)

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Ansel Adams

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousof Karsh

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Breeson

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

Which of the photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham