Pick of Pics: December 2009

Ever since I was little, I've always loved watching birds and dreamed of flying like them (which is odd cause I'm not too fond of airplanes). So, here's a little compilation of some of my favorite bird pics. Enjoy...

Quotes and Stories

“Come, Listen to a Prophet’s Voice”

Virginia U. Jensen

First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

The story is told of an event that happened in New York when President David O. McKay returned from a trip to Europe. “Arrangements had been made for pictures to be taken, but the regular photographer was unable to go, so in desperation the United Press picked their crime photographer—a man accustomed to the toughest type of work in New York. He went to the airport, stayed there two hours, and returned later from [the] dark room with a tremendous sheaf of pictures. He was supposed to take only two. His boss immediately chided him, ‘What in the world are you wasting time and all those photographic supplies for?’

“The photographer replied very curtly, saying he would gladly pay for the extra materials, and they could even dock him for the extra time he took. … Several hours later the vice-president called him to his office, wanting to learn what happened. The crime photographer said, ‘When I was a little boy, my mother used to read to me out of the Old Testament, and all my life I have wondered what a prophet of God must really look like. Well, today I found one.’ ”

Robert D. Hales, "The Importance of Receiving a Personal Testimony", Ensign, Nov 1994, 20

Generally, testimony emerges over time and through life’s experiences. We can compare testimony to the process of watching a photograph develop. Powerful impressions of the Spirit come like flashes of light on receptive photographic film. Like the chemicals needed to develop the picture, certain spiritual conditions and experiences are needed in our lives for our personal testimony to develop into a certain truth and knowledge. And like a photograph, a testimony, if not carefully preserved, will fade with time.

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

-Elliott Erwitt

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

-Ansel Adams

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

-Aaron Siskind

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

-Dorothea Lange

*All photographs on this blog are copyrighted by Tyler Windholz

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