| No place is boring, if you've had a good | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | - Aaron Siskind |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Allard | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Dallas |
Huntsville |
Montgomery |
Naperville |
Indianapolis |
Beaumont |
Tuscaloosa |
Greeley |
Lorain |
Clarksburg |
Richmond |
Biloxi |
Portsmouth |
Alton |
Wauseon |
Newport |
Kankakee |
Sayre |
Clifton Park |
Woodburn |
Stillwater |
Duarte |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | those that you are going to make. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Weston | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| One should really use the camera as though | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| - Dorothea Lange | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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