| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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San Francisco |
Philadelphia |
Buffalo |
Springfield |
Tucson |
Kingsport |
Orange |
Palm Desert |
Palm Harbor |
Newark |
Glenview |
Monroe |
Augusta |
El Paso |
Albany |
Twin Falls |
Bellevue |
Briarcliff Manor |
Louisville |
Pikeville |
North Highlands |
Cumberland Gap |
Dundee |
Buttonwillow |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | communicate more powerfully than either |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Weston | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | those that you are going to make. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | That's life! - John Sexton |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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