| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Oklahoma City |
Bayside |
Waterloo |
Garland |
Decatur |
Brooklyn |
Kennesaw |
Kokomo |
Morgantown |
Cambridge |
St. Louis Park |
Burlingame |
Fresno |
Rialto |
Miami |
Bemidji |
Morgan City |
Voorhees |
Plymouth |
Lexington |
Winnie |
Sequim |
Rochelle |
Chadron |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Adams |
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