| I almost never set out to photograph a | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| Rowell | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| be made. - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| world about you, and trust to your own | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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