If you are interested in using any of these images for stock or limited licensing use please submit a specific request to me at Harp Photography. Outside of a few local art galleries I do not generally sell prints. If you wish to purchase a print please specify what size you require--and make me an offer.

Many thanks--GH


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My interest in photography began with the receipt of a camera as a gift from my maternal grandmother. For many years photography was simply a magical means of capturing a snapshot of friends, celebrations, and places.

As I became aware of the work of photographers such as Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon among others I came to realize photography can offer much more than just capturing a snippet of a time and place.

My passion is capturing images through the medium of film that evoke feelings and emotions in much the same way that painters, sculptors, potters, poets, writers and musicians do in their respective mediums. Where Ansel Adams is world-renown for capturing spectacular black and white photographs of the American West I seek to share my vision of the spectacular vistas of the everyday beauty that surrounds each of us, but which passes by largely unnoticed.

My photographs are printed on a state of the art Giclee photographic printer using archival inks and archival paper. Framed under glass using acid-free archival quality mats and displayed out of direct sunlight these prints will outlast conventional photographic prints by many decades.

I hope my photographs will help you see what I see--and perhaps gain a greater vision of the beauty that continually surrounds each of us.

~ Greg


A few worthwhile quotes regarding photography:

"Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel." ~Peter Adams

"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." ~Robert Heinecken

"I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money." ~Philippe Halsman

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." ~Richard Avedon

"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse." ~Diane Arbus

"If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul." ~Author Unknown

"Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character." ~Philippe Halsman, Great Themes : LIFE Library of Photography by Time-Life (Editor), Page: 106

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange

"This is the essence of a work of art: that you never touch bottom. If a picture has for everybody exactly the same meaning, it is a platitude, and it is meaningless as a work of art. The same is true for a portrait: if it is not rich in character and meaning, it is a poor portrait." ~Philippe Halsman - "An 'Astonish me' Sunday", A Sermon by Philippe Halsman, Popular Photography, March 1967, p. 64

"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera." ~Edward Steichen

"When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject." ~Anonymous

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it." ~John Berger

"I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field." ~Rick Steves, travel guide and author

"People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that!" ~Larry (Chris Elliott) in the movie "Groundhog Day"

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." ~Robert Adams

"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." ~Usman B. Asif

"I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify. They don't care what is around the object as long as nothing interferes with the object itself, right in the center. Even after the lessons of Winogrand and Friedlander, they don't get it.... They want the obvious. ... I am at war with the obvious." ~ William Eggleston

"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style."
~Author Unknown (But there are days when I'm sure I'm working on this style.)