| I almost never set out to photograph a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Rowell | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Weston | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| - Edward Steichen | 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 | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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