Harold Feinstein

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

American Photographer

Mary Schmich

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

American Journalist

Tom Perez

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world.

American Politician

Jean-Claude Van Damme

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Belgian Actor

Luther Strange

Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.

Eve Plumb

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

American Actress

Jerzy Kosinski

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Polish Novelist

Yousuf Karsh

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Canadian Photographer

Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Shutters can be different kinds; panels, folding, rolling, or sliding.

Multiple Forms

Shutters often provide protection from weather or offer privacy.

Protective Use

Besides function, shutters also serve as decoration for windows.

Decorative Function

Camera shutters control the duration of light exposure on film or sensor.

Control Exposure

Adjusting shutter speed allows for creative effects like blur or freeze.

Creative Effects

The term 'shutter speed' is specific to photography and videography.

Technical Term

To shutter can mean closing temporarily for the day or permanently.

Temporary or Permanent

Shutter is often used figuratively to imply an ending.

Figurative Use

The verb form is commonly used in business contexts to indicate closure.

Economic Context

 this is one of the cleaner ones. They are actually following protocol. They have to recycle the water now by government. 70 tanneries were shuttered down by the government, but it is one of the most toxic places I've ever been in my life. This was like walking into a bottle of ammonia. My nose almost exploded when I walked in here. I mean, they are basically bathing

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 So I don't think it's any different than photography. - So you can see your aperture. That's what your camera's doing automatically. There's only three things cameras do. So you have a sensor. You have an aperture and a shutter. That's what a camera is. - That's right, yep. - Everything with those basics. - You know, we always say art imitates life.

Photography as...

 and send commands from my laptop telling the telescope where to point, when to open and close the shutter, what pictures I want it to take of the universe -- all from many states away. So the way that we operate telescopes has really changed, but the questions we're trying to answer about the universe

A stellar history of...

 A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest. Each of us had a before and an after.

In search for the man...

 Who am I? Who is anyone, really? When I wake up in the morning and open my eyes, a world appears. These days, since I've hardly been anywhere, it's a very familiar there's the wardrobe beyond the end of the bed, the shuttered windows and the shrieking of seagulls,

Anil Seth: How your...

 leap into the air around each other shutter about a thousand frames a second and I've never seen anything like that in 25 years of wildlife filmmaking it's an incredible moment if you want to find out more take a look at our behind-the-scenes extra material

Working In Miniature PIPE...

 The universe is really big. We live in a galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. There are about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. And if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky, and you just keep the shutter open,

Sean Carroll: Distant...

 the universe is really big we live in a galaxy the Milky Way galaxy there about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky and you just keep the shutter open as long

Distant time and the...

 we both had to tape our feet into position every time I clicked the shutter. I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the power of observation.

The passing of time,...

 Batman shutters that go down over the glass for extra protection we have biological monitoring equipment rad meters chemical test kits to secure his bunker from airborne toxins

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