| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | You just have to care about what's around you |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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Quincy |
Westlake |
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Mahwah |
Alameda |
Florence |
Coon Rapids |
Opelousas |
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Falls Church |
Hagerstown |
Waynesboro |
Niles |
Van Wert |
Beaumont |
Hastings |
Galisteo |
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Hilton Head |
Walsenburg |
West Orange |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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