| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | 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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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Lange |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Rowell | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Ansel Adams |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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