Sometimes, even the PDML does something right. And when that happens I document the event by recording the most notable words for the annual Quotations List. It's not easy reading through every single post made to the PDML over the course of a year and parsing every sentence for meaning, wit and clarity. So I don't. I just save the best bits of the selection of posts I happen to read. Unfair? Unrepresentative? Well, life is unfair and if you're a PDML member who's posted anything during the past year you'll probably have to admit (if pressed) that unrepresentative might not necessarily be a bad thing. Do you really want people to know what we're really like?

So don't complain. It could be worse. You could be in New Jersey.

As always we're going to include the Quotations List in the PDML Photo Annual. Enjoy!

You can't be married if you have a lens that big.

— Jack Davis

I have to say that if I spent as much time in front of naked ladies as you do, I wouldn't be dallying by posting to the PDML.

— Cotty

The PDML is everything that a naked lady is not.

— Bruce Walker

The image has just enough of everything. No more, no less.

— Bulent Celasun

Walkaround lenses are so much better when you can actually walk around.

— Larry Colen

There are so many straw men in there, the Wizard of Oz is wondering which one to give the brain to.

— Frank Theriault

I did not mean to neglect you as an influence, but everyone is clothed here.

— Donald Guthrie

Lenses that are manual-focus only are so last century!

— Stan Halpin

Thank God I'm broke most of the time, otherwise I'd own one of everything.

— P.J. Alling

The last thing my photography needs is an argumentative lens.

— Mike Wilson

Serious editing is the easiest way to improve your images.

— Ken Waller

I think that I'm just getting better at throwing away more of the photos that shouldn't be posted.

— Larry Colen

Murder your darlings.

— Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

All my images are mediocre, but I inflict them on the group anyway.

— Dan Matyola

I realize that pedantry is almost unheard of on PDML...

— Larry Colen

This was shot in Paris, where not only is smoking in public places allowed, it seems to be absolutely required.

— Marco Alpert

I'm great at managing other people's money.

— Norm Baugher

I just don't get coffee shop shots.

— Cotty

Glad you found my comments useful. They were correct, of course, whether you agreed with them or not.

— Darren Addy

I learned my nit picking from Ann.

— Donald Guthrie

It only exceeds my budget by a single order of magnitude.

— Larry Colen

Chris is a thoroughbred – there hasn't been a marriage outside the family since 1357...

— Bob Walkden

Only the insecure are afraid of clichés.

— Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer)

Adobe Digital Editions was a bucket of fail.

— Larry Colen

Sometimes even New Jersey does something right.

— Dan Matyola

Stouffeville is the cultural centre of Toronto and home to our annual Spelling Bee.

— Frank Theriault

We're cropping reality every time we take a photo.

— David Mann

You have to have a certain amount of young and stupid before you can become old and wise.

— Bob Sullivan

This is like pouring vinegar into water and calling it lemon juice.

— Ralf Radermacher

It's not that I don't trust the technology, it's just that I don't trust the technology.

— Cotty

No one should feel defensive if they find phone photos completely satisfactory, and nobody should be telling them otherwise. But no one should feel defensive for feeling the need to move to a higher level, either.

— Ctein (The Online Photographer)

It's spelled correctly, it's just not the right word.

— P.J. Alling

I've been reduced to taking cat photos.

— Steven Sharpe

It was a breath of fresh air to find a group of photographers who generally knew their aperture from a hole in the ground.

— Larry Colen

Top up my pension fund for me and I'll post until your eyes bleed.

— Mike Wilson

The PDML is like an overnight bus journey with a garrulous drunk.

— Bob Walkden

If there's a way to screw up a photo, I've done it. But I also control which photos emerge from the rubble.

— Doug Brewer

Whoa. You should be able to view individual atoms with that lens. You should even be able to read the manufacturer's warning labels on those atoms.

— Bruce Walker

I'm fairly certain you don't improve art by simply raising the price tag.

— Malcolm Smith

HCB Decisive Moment Arrived!

— Christine Aguila

I used to think nothing would rid central London of the smell of urine in the morning, but nowadays it's wafts of beard wax as drippy-looking pre-Raphaelites, hips skinnier than their top tube, drift by on their rescued steel-frame bicycles. And that's just the girls.

— Bob Walkden

I knew there was a good reason to avoid shooting models wearing clothes.

— Bruce Walker

The more you give people, the less happy they are.

— Bill Robb

Warning: Photo contains cat.

— Bruce Walker

Bowery Boogie: Tips for the aspiring photographer?
Ann Sanfedele: If I try to answer this it will turn into a rant, but trashing your smart phone would be a start.

— BoweryBoogie.com

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