| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Tampa |
Albuquerque |
Phoenix |
Minneapolis |
Jacksonville |
San Francisco |
Birmingham |
Palm Harbor |
Jasper |
Amherst |
San Ramon |
Auburn |
Victoria |
Farmington |
Norfolk |
Shelton |
Baxley |
Altoona |
San Angelo |
Seal Beach |
Denver |
Lebanon |
Marysville |
Brooklyn Park |
Birch Run |
Tigard |
San Luis Obispo |
Upper Sandusky |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Sam Abell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
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