| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Weston | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Orlando |
Virginia Beach |
Columbia |
El Paso |
Chattanooga |
Naples |
Brookline |
Norfolk |
Culver City |
Angola |
Howell |
Budd Lake |
Conway |
Alexandria |
Jackson |
Kingston |
Louisville |
Warsaw |
Yakima |
Union |
Zapata |
Walker |
Carneys Point |
Phoenix |
Prince George |
Clinton |
Greenville |
Deerfield Beach |
Ruidoso |
Chandler |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| those that you are going to make. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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