| 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 | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | 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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Houston |
Indianapolis |
Atlanta |
New York |
Fresno |
Miami |
El Paso |
Westbury |
Bayside |
Fayetteville |
Lynchburg |
Everett |
Myrtle Beach |
Ormond Beach |
Charlotte |
New Iberia |
Essex Junction |
Bluefield |
Jackson |
West Columbia |
Pinehurst |
Winterset |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | those that you are going to make. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | That's life! - John Sexton |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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