| I almost never set out to photograph a | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Rowell | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | more you realize what can be photographed |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Atlanta |
Gainesville |
Shreveport |
Olympia |
Ogden |
Honolulu |
San Diego |
Beaufort |
Burlington |
Milford |
Glendale |
Kennesaw |
South Hill |
Osage Beach |
Fulton |
Middleburg Heights |
St. Louis |
Arroyo Grande |
Big Bear Lake |
Shelburne |
Calera |
Fisher Island |
Puyallup |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | be made. - Sam Abell |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
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