| I almost never set out to photograph a | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Rowell | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Adams |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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Pittsburgh |
Torrance |
Providence |
Columbia |
Mobile |
Melbourne |
St. Charles |
Warren |
Oak Park |
Lakewood |
Macomb |
Toms River |
Harrisonburg |
Beaver Falls |
Irmo |
Katy |
Hazlehurst |
Crawfordsville |
College Station |
Plymouth |
West Sacramento |
Muscle Shoals |
Pinellas Park |
Dry Ridge |
Hibbing |
Kimberly |
Watervile |
Portland |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Photography is about finding out what can |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| It is not the language of painters but the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| world about you, and trust to your own | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| 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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