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“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.”
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“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
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“As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.”
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“I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth.”
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“And I have come to understand the truth of what Ansel Adams said that you don’t make a photograph just with a camera but that you bring to the act all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard and the people you have loved.”
― Travelling in a Strange Land
― Travelling in a Strange Land
Vivek’s 2025 Year in Books
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