| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | It is not the language of painters but the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| | Stieglitz |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Fort Lauderdale |
Milwaukee |
Grand Rapids |
Buffalo |
Huntington Beach |
North Hollywood |
Grand Prairie |
Southaven |
Troy |
Broomfield |
Castro Valley |
Senatobia |
Booneville |
Smyrna |
Tempe |
Thief River Falls |
Beaufort |
Colonial Heights |
Smithfield |
Perry |
Pecos |
Duncanville |
Mchenry |
Princeton |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| has to transform the photographer into an | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| 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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