| I almost never set out to photograph a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| Rowell | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | 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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New York |
Jacksonville |
Atlanta |
Durham |
Dayton |
Arlington |
Jackson |
Chattanooga |
Albany |
Aurora |
Covington |
Palm Bay |
Lawrenceville |
Roxboro |
International Falls |
Canton |
New Orleans |
Santa Cruz |
Portage |
East Lansing |
Truth Or Consequences |
Brunswick |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography is about finding out what can |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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