| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| - Sam Abell | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | more you realize what can be photographed |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | world about you, and trust to your own |
| edges around some facts, you change those | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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