| It is not the language of painters but the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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San Diego |
Tucson |
Cincinnati |
Gainesville |
Rochester |
Grand Prairie |
Westerville |
Mission |
Evergreen |
Lexington |
Panama City |
Fort Myers Beach |
Chantilly |
Towanda |
Campbell |
Garden Grove |
Mansfield |
Lake Placid |
Hesperia |
South Padre Island |
Mineral Wells |
Davenport |
Gardner |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | has to transform the photographer into an |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Rowell |
| 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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