| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| world about you, and trust to your own | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Adams |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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Seattle |
Scottsdale |
Lubbock |
Stockton |
Lafayette |
Sedalia |
Duncan |
Piqua |
Hopkinsville |
Santa Rosa |
Mechanicsville |
Cottonwood |
Monrovia |
Hazleton |
Lawrenceburg |
Clifton |
Endicott |
Sheffield |
Lakewood |
Anaheim |
Opelika |
Plainville |
Londonderry |
Ishpeming |
Bonner S Ferry |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Weston | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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