| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | those that you are going to make. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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Oklahoma City |
Portsmouth |
Fort Collins |
Turlock |
Des Moines |
Riverton |
Pearland |
Mason City |
Columbus |
Moody |
Delano |
Arroyo Grande |
Chesapeake |
Floral Park |
Cincinnati |
Harrodsburg |
Rocky Mount |
Bowling Green |
Kingstree |
Salem |
Statesboro |
Sunrise |
Big Sur |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| be made. - Sam Abell | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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