| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Adams | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| has to transform the photographer into an | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| One should really use the camera as though | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | |
| - Dorothea Lange | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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