| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | Allard |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Rowell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Miami |
Lakeland |
Denver |
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Stockton |
Redding |
Quincy |
Hutchinson |
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Deerfield |
Minden |
Pacific Grove |
Parsons |
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Columbia |
Escondido |
Denham Springs |
Attleboro |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | - Edward Steichen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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