| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you realize what can be photographed | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | be made. - Sam Abell |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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Riverside |
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Elyria |
Fairbanks |
Franklin |
Rapid City |
Montgomery |
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Moberly |
Pottstown |
Abingdon |
Muskegon |
Melbourne |
Lisbon |
Hayward |
Loveland |
Wyomissing |
Fairborn |
Mount Laurel |
Oriskany |
Hart |
Elizabethtown |
Mountlake Terrace |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Weston | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Photography is about finding out what can |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | edges around some facts, you change those |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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