| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | situation nearly as interesting as |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Allard |
| Rowell | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you realize what can be photographed |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Baton Rouge |
Richmond |
Albuquerque |
Huntsville |
Gulfport |
Springfield |
Pinellas Park |
Kannapolis |
Beaverton |
Westborough |
Grapevine |
Cleburne |
Dyersville |
Blaine |
Dorchester |
Ankeny |
Williams |
Black Mountain |
Ionia |
Pittsburg |
Alton |
Mount Laurel |
Westfield |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | those that you are going to make. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | That's life! - John Sexton |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| be made. - Sam Abell | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Stieglitz | 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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