RON HENGGELER |
March 2, 2021
Remembering and editing old photos
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Dorothea Lange
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento2015To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Sacramento2015A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.Henri Catrier-Bresson |
San Francisco1980 |
1983 |
Macy's Union SquareSan Francisco1981Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.Edward Weston |
San Francisco City Hall2008 |
Petaluma2013Photography helps people to see.Berenice Abbott |
Francois Couperin1668-1733 |
Telegraph HillSan Francisco2012 |
San Francisco City Hall2011 |
Detail of DiverBy David LigareCrocker Museum, Sacramento2015 |
Ceasar's PalaceLas Vegas1979 |
Sunrise from my window2012 |
2021 |
San Francisco Chinatown2007 |
San Francisco Financial District2013Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Collis Huntington2017 |
Golden Gate Bridge2005 |
San Francisco1982 |
Francisco & Jazz2016 |
San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf2012 |
Vesuvio Cafe mural, North BeachSan Francisco2013 |
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Ceaasar's Palace, Las Vegas1979Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel.Sam Abell |
Chris Leatherwood1997 |
Paper, pen & ink collage1985By R H |
1980 |
Fulton and BakerSan Francisco2021Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.Dorothea Lange |
San Francisco1980For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Bernhard2007 |
West Ridgecrest RoadMarin Headlands2014
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10th Street, South of MarketSan Francisco2010 |
2007 |
Sonoma Coast State ParkNorth of Jenner2013 |
San Francisco City Hall2008 |
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento2015 |
Detail of the Barbary Coast mural, by Charley Brown
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Big 4 Restaurant2012 |
San Francisco 1849-50 |
Timothy2007 |
2021The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.Margaret Bourke-White |
Dr. Jane Goodall2010You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.Margaret Bourke-White |
Alpine Lake, Mt. Tamalpais State Park2014This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.Dorothea Lange |
Antonin Dvorak1841-1904 |
Alexander on the Golden Gate Bridge2005 |
Gizmo & Francisco, and a crow2015The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange |
Mason Street, San Francisco2012 |
Paper, pen & ink graphicBy R H1981 |
Detail of the Barbary Coast mural, by Charley Brown
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The tower and the February full moon2021 |
2021 |
Herman1989 |
1998 |
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento2015 |
Alpine Lake, Mt. Tamalpais State Park2014 |
San Francisco2021 |
Golden Gate Bridge2005 |
Transamerica Pyramid from Chinatown2012 |
Alpine Lake, Mt. Tamalpais State Park2014Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.Dorothea Lange |
Dr. Jane GoodallFeatured guest speaker at the Wildlife Conservation NetworkMission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.2013 |
Claire1990 |
Rich2012 |
Mikhail Glinka1804-1857 |
Gavin2008 |
The tower near Alamo Square, and the February full moon2021 |
J. J.2013 |
Coastal headlands above Bolinas, seen from the West Ridgecrest RoadMt. Tamalpais State Park2014 |
Chinatown, San Francisco2013Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.Margaret Bourke-White |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1987 |
San Francisco1982Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.Edward Weston |
Franklin & Hickory Street2021We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.Sam Abell |
Golden Gate Bridge2005To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Dario2007 |
Jules Massenet1842-1912 |
Goat Rock Beach2013This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.Edward Weston |
San Francisco City Hall2008 |
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento2015To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.Dorothea Lange |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1985 |
Sunrise in San Francisco2015 |
Jean-Marie Leclair1697-1764 |
Store window, Mission District1982 |
San Francisco2020Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.Edward Weston |
Edu2007 |
Golden Gate Bridge2005Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.Ansel Adams |
Laurel Dell RoadMt. Tamalpais State Park2014 |
BisonGolden Gate Park2012 |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1986 |
The Pacific, and coastal ridges2014The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.Edward Weston |
Landscape with a Running Horse1990Oil on canvasBy David LigareAt the Crocker Museum in Sacramento |
February's full moon from my window2021 |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1983 |
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento2015 |
Dillon Beach Road, Tomales2012It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.James Agee |
Terry2007 |
Crocker Muesum, Sacramento2015 |
Franz Liszt1811-1886 |
Dr. Jane GoodallFeatured guest speaker at the Wildlife Conservation NetworkMission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.2013You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.Dorothea Lange |
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