"You don't make a photograph with just a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."
"Seeing is for me a way of knowing, photography a way of thinking. I see most acutely through the frame of the camera’s viewfinder and think most fluently through images." Anne Whiston Spirn
Today I started reading a book by Anne Whiston Spirn titled The Eye Is A Door, - Landscape, Photography, and The Art of Discovery. The above quote is how the book begins. Spirn's words remind me why my camera is always with me and why my favorite time of my day is when I am capturing my thoughts through images.