| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Weston |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| - Ansel Adams | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Chicago |
Baton Rouge |
Bradenton |
Boston |
Fayetteville |
Omaha |
Bakersfield |
Killeen |
Watertown |
Madison |
Fort Valley |
Foley |
Savage |
Sheridan |
North Little Rock |
Los Alamos |
Crystal Lake |
Belton |
Clinton |
Pottstown |
Carson |
Tomball |
Heath |
Baxter |
Orange Park |
Forrest City |
Weatherford |
Marco Island |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you realize what can be photographed | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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