True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist.  
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. 
Twyla Tharp 1941

        

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Welcome to my photography, I hope your stay is enjoyable.  All photographs are my original work, hand printed in my darkroom.  If you notice one thing about my photographs, take a good look at the eyes.  Please let yourself "feel" the photograph, the emotions.  The eyes are the soul, and can either capture you, mesmerize you, or not...

I hope that you can follow your dreams, for you never know where they may take you.

Enjoy.

Laurie

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I was excited about printing the below photograph.  What I didn't realize until I viewed it was that he must have been "excited" too!  He had just a "wee" bit of a problem! 

"Yes Mam!"  I am a real cowboy! 


 In some way, however small and secret each of us is a little mad.
 Everyone is lonely at bottom and cries to be understood. 
 But we can never entirely understand someone else and each of us 
 remains part stranger, even to those who love us. 
 It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected 
 from the strong, and those who do not know fear are not really brave. 
 For courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.  
 You can understand people better if you look at them no matter how old or oppressive they are 
 as if they are children. Most of us never really mature, we simply grow tall. 
 Happiness comes only when we push our hearts and brains to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.  
 For the purpose of life is to matter, to count, to stand for something, 
 to have it make some difference that you lived at all.


Author - Leo Rosten

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Laurie Fix
Aiken SC
copyright 1998
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