| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | Lange |
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| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| Rowell | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| You just have to care about what's around you | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| more you realize what can be photographed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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