| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you realize what can be photographed |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| be made. - Sam Abell | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Dallas |
Omaha |
Springfield |
Huntsville |
Gainesville |
Newport News |
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Salem |
Carson City |
Cumming |
Cookeville |
Hyannis |
Madera |
Gonzales |
Strongsville |
Wichita Falls |
Spearfish |
Selmer |
Wethersfield |
Tualatin |
Folsom |
Tiffin |
Warner Robins |
North Adams |
Cartersville |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| has to transform the photographer into an | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| - Sam Abell | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| One should really use the camera as though | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
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