| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | world about you, and trust to your own |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | - Ansel Adams |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Baltimore |
Tampa |
Cincinnati |
Fort Worth |
Miami |
Madison |
Quincy |
Bronx |
Decatur |
Shelbyville |
Provo |
Staten Island |
Endicott |
Yazoo City |
Shrewsbury |
Philadelphia |
West Helena |
Norfolk |
Big Stone Gap |
Rogersville |
Cherokee |
Beaver Falls |
Northville |
South Portland |
Dearborn |
Potosi |
Northborough |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Sam Abell |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
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