| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | 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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Louisville |
Lake Worth |
Cherry Hill |
Worcester |
Berkeley |
Omaha |
West Plains |
Aurora |
Walnut Creek |
Marietta |
Cleveland |
Greensburg |
Mars Hill |
Eden Prairie |
Duncanville |
St Augustine Beach |
Mountain Home |
Coalville |
Hilo |
Bald Head Island |
Universal City |
Webbers Falls |
Dana Point |
Manistique |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | those that you are going to make. |
| Lange | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| world about you, and trust to your own | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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