| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | - Aaron Siskind |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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