| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | has to transform the photographer into an |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| be made. - Sam Abell | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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Las Vegas |
El Paso |
Ann Arbor |
Vancouver |
Howell |
Arroyo Grande |
North Vernon |
Seymour |
Silverdale |
Mission Hills |
Wytheville |
Sandusky |
Senatobia |
Lewistown |
Goldrock |
Pleasanton |
Melbourne |
Haines City |
Hawthorne |
Marion |
Brown Deer |
Westport |
Somerset |
Shippensburg |
Scituate |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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