| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| Allard | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | - Aaron Siskind |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you realize what can be photographed | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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Tucson |
Mesa |
South Bend |
Atlanta |
Iowa City |
Myrtle Beach |
Pearland |
Massapequa Park |
Joplin |
Winnsboro |
Grand Rapids |
Nashua |
Collins |
Westford |
Dayton |
Angola |
Mary Esther |
Arnold |
Carson City |
Rice Lake |
Deer Park |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | - Sam Abell |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Rowell |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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