| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Adams |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| has to transform the photographer into an | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Rowell | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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