Child*

Every child begins the world again.
Henry David Thoreau

(Hamar, Norway; February 2010)

Seperation*

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

(Granada, Spain; September 2006).

Shade*

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine but leaving us we cross into the shade.
Christian Nevell Bovee

(Hamar, Norway; October 2008)

Between*

Read between the lines--you never know what wonders you will come to find.

(Neuschwanstein Castle, Balvaria, Germany; November 2006)

Edges*

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

(Sierra Nevada, Spain; December 2006)

Tag*

Man er ikke voksen før man tør å være barnslig.
Norwegian saying

(You aren't an adult before you can dare to be childish.)

(Plaza de España, Sevilla, Spain; October 2006).

Comprehension*

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson

(Hamar, Norway; January 2010)

Potential*

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

(Hamar, Norway; September 2008)

Rust*

It's better to wear out than rust out.
Richard Cumberland

(Inismore, Ireland; November 2007)

Lake*

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens

(Hamar, Norway; January 2010)

Resolution*

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep is this: to rise above the little things.
John Burroughs

(Tynset, Norway; January 2010)

Anger*

Like fragile ice, anger passes in time.
Ovid

(Hamar, Norway; November 2009)

Feet*

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

(Córdoba, Spain: September, 2006)

Climb*

Climb the fence.
Rick Noren

(Hamar, Norway; September, 2008)

Wonder*

He who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

(Granada, Spain; September, 2006)

Inside*

Inside yourself or out, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas

(Tynset, Norway; November, 2009)

Frozen*

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

(Hunderfossen, Norway; November, 2009)

Growth*

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
John Maxwell

(Poulsbo, WA, USA; October, 2009)

Weather*

Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, men bare dårlig klær.
Norwegian proverb
(There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing)

(Hamar, Norway; November, 2009)

Intrusion*

Sometimes sticking your nose in other peoples' business isn't such a bad thing.

(Sequim, WA, USA; September, 2009)

Originality*

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.


(Seattle, WA, USA; September, 2009)

Permeneance*

Nothing lasts, and that's a shame.
Benjamin Button



(Portland, OR, USA; August, 2009)

Sight*

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

(Seattle, WA, USA; July, 2009)

Music*

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
Edward Elgar

(Tacoma, WA, USA; September, 2009)

Consent*

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide

(WA, USA; August, 2009)

Innocence*

If only we could all run around with the certainty of our bodies like we were three years old again, and nothing mattered except that there were berries to be picked, butterflies to chase and bushes to pee in.

(WA, USA; July, 2009)

Caminante*

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Antonio Machado

(Hamar, Norway; April, 2009)

Reflect*

One travels more usefully alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas Jefferson


(London, England; November, 2006)

Walk*

If you are lacking inspiration, go out for a walk. Outside it seems ideas leap at you, from behind buildings, down from windows or out from the cracks in the cobblestones.

(Osnabrück, Germany; December, 2008)

Church*

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles de Lint

(Spain; November, 2006)

Pansy*

pansy (pan′zē)

1. any of various violets, esp. a popular garden hybrid (Viola tricolor hortensis), with flat, broad, velvety petals in many colors
2. an effeminate man; esp., an effeminate male homosexual: often a contemptuous term

(Hamar, Norway; May, 2009)

Dance*

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health--it rusts your spirit and your hips.
Abadella Rabici

(Osnabrück, Germany; December, 2008)

Facade*

It turns out than an eerie type of chaos can lurk behind a facade of order...
Douglas Hostadter

(Inismore, Ireland; November, 2006)

Possibility*

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in his mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(Hamar, Norway; May, 2009)

Tongues*

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither--these make the finest company in the world.
Logan Pearsall Smith

(Suquamish, WA; June, 2008)

(Sevilla, Spain; October, 2006)

Blur*

Memory blurs the edges of our rough past.

(Granada, Spain; December, 2006)

Proportion*

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
Gertrude S. Wister

(Hamar, Norway; April, 2009)

Risk*

Living at risk is jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

(Aryan Islands, Ireland; November, 2006)

Art*

You can find art, beauty, inspiration--anywhere, anytime. Just open your eyes!

(Poulsbo, WA, USA; July, 2008)

Meanings*

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

(Tynset, Norway; April, 2009)

Patience*

It is hard to wait, expecting the fish, when you are overwhelmed with doubt as to if these fish, under this ocean's surface, want your bait.

(Cádiz, Spain; October, 2006)

Youth*

Once in awhile we all wish we were kids again. When else was it cute to be a slob?

(Poulsbo, WA, USA; July, 2008)

Doors*

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock,
equally spaced among those that open when you don't want them to.
Roger Zelazny

(Hamar, Norway; October, 2008)

Lighthouses*

It's easy to act as if you are a weather vane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please those around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weather vanes.
Robert Cooper

(Córdoba, Spain; September, 2006)

Song*

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

(London, England; November, 2006)

Paths*

The past of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.
Elbert Hubbard

(Lillehammer, Norway; October, 2008)

Victory*

You can stand tall without standing on someone.
You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods


(Brumunddal, Norway; March, 2009)

Laughter*

The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Seattle, WA, USA; June, 2008)

Charge*

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a bit like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey

(Granada, Spain; October, 2006)

Grass*

You could cover the whole earth with aphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilva Ehrenburg

(Tacoma, WA, USA; September, 2007)

Therapy*

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Ben Williams

(Shasta Lake, CA, USA; August, 2007)

Joy*

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

(Budor, Hamar, Norway; March, 2009)

Me Quedará*

De este cuerpecito mío
que se ha convertido en río

El tiempo todo calma
la tempestad y la calma
Siempre me quedará
la voz suave del mar
volver a respirar
la lluvia que caerá
sobre este cuerpo y mojará

Bebe

El Valle de Los Caídos, Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain; November, 2006)

Mountains*

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!
Dr. Seuss

(Mt. Rainer, WA, USA; July, 2008)

Youth*

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

(Shasta Lake, CA, USA; 8.2007)

Barnacle*

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins

(Ruby Beach, WA, USA; July, 2008)

Perspective*

We do not see the lens through which we look.
Ruth Benedict

(Castillo de San Miguel, Almuñécar, Spain; September, 2006)

Gossip*

En boca cerrada, no entran moscas.
Spanish Proverb
My rough translation: A closed mouth catches no flies.

(Tacoma, WA, USA; May, 2008)

Humility*

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

(Chicago, IL, USA; November, 2007)

Discovery*

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

(WA, USA; February, 2007)

Equality*

We are not the first but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentleman, by two unstoppable forces: freedom and equality.
Jose Luis Rodriguez
Prime Minister of Spain (in a speech given after Spain legalized gay marriage in 2005)

(Salzburg, Austria; November, 2006)

(Oslo, Norway; November, 2008)

(Granada, Spain; September, 2006)

Movement*

Up to a point, a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour

(Dublin, Ireland; November 2006)

Every*little*thing*

Rise up this mornin,
Smiled with the risin sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin, (this is my message to you-ou-ou:)

Singin: dont worry bout a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin: dont worry (dont worry) bout a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right!
Bob Marley

(Cádiz, Spain; October, 2006)

Responsibility*

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
Voltaire

(Hamar, Norway; February, 2009)

Growth*

We all get big some day.

(Hamar, Norway; February, 2009)

Cause*

"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."
Arnold Bennett

(Olympia, WA, USA; January, 2007)

Bubbles*

I don't have much witty to say...just that bubbles are cool and make for fun photographs and that I REALLY miss my family a lot.

(Poulsbo, WA, USA; May, 2006)

Pride*

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."
C.S. Lewis

(Salzburg, Austria: November, 2006)

Waves*

Where are you going
with your long face pulling down?
Don’t hide away like an ocean
But you can’t see, but you can smell
And the sound waves crash down

I am no superman
I have no reasons (answers) for you
I am no hero, oh that’s for sure
But I do know one thing for sure
Is where you are, is where I belong
Dave Matthews Band

(Ventura Beach, CA, USA; February, 2008)

Composure*

"I used to think that photographs were 'composed'. This made photography sound very unexuberant, as if it was primarily a deliberate act. Such a notion suggests that a photographer stands in front of an inviting landscape, arranges a composition, and then takes the picture. And it's true that many photographers work that way. Of course, if photographs can be composed, then there must be rules of composition, such as: the subject should never be dead center. But why not? I used to think you could learn how to be a photographer by learning the rules of composition and how to use a camera. Now I think just the opposite: if you have to learn rules, then it's already too late. The elements of a design can make a photograph bearable and inoffensive, but they will not make a photograph compelling. We are compelled by photographs which, within the limits of an objectively appropriate form, manage to offer us something that touches on authentic concerns - our happiness or unhappiness, our fidelities, our modern war with perplexity. The balance between design and content must be there because design by itself is not interesting and pure content is merely assertive."
John Rosenthal

(Granada, Spain; September, 2006)

Luck*

"Many people, even some good photographers, talk of the ‘luck’ of photography as if that were a disparagement. And it is true that luck is constantly at work. It is one of the cardinal creative forces in the universe, one which the photographer has unique equipment for collaborating with. ...
Most good photographs, especially the quick and lyrical kind, are battles between the artist and luck."
James Rufus Agee

(Hamar, Norway; January, 2009)

This picture was the result of my second attempt; in my opinion the people in the background make the picture, and that was a bit of luck.

Black*White*

"Life is like a good black and white photograph; there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between."
Karl Heiner

(Lillehammer, Norway; October, 2008)