| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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Baltimore |
San Diego |
Virginia Beach |
Des Moines |
St. Paul |
Amsterdam |
Lafayette |
North Platte |
Dothan |
Pico Rivera |
Revere |
Olean |
Scarborough |
Centerville |
Normal |
Ladysmith |
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Wayne |
Clarion |
Napa |
Frisco |
Mukwonago |
Geneva |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Adams |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| It is not the language of painters but the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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