| 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 | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Rowell | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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St. Louis |
Tucson |
Houston |
Kalamazoo |
Eugene |
Clifton |
Gaylord |
Paducah |
Oak Harbor |
Voorhees |
Cartersville |
Mequon |
Brighton |
Lavonia |
Mount Vernon |
Brevard |
Brooklyn |
Tualatin |
Elgin |
Rohnert Park |
Perryville |
Robinson |
Tybee Island |
Plesantville |
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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 | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Lange | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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