| No place is boring, if you've had a good | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | Rowell |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | - Sam Abell |
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Houston |
Pittsburgh |
Raleigh |
Dallas |
Asheville |
Sarasota |
Thousand Oaks |
Plano |
Newburgh |
New Albany |
Senatobia |
Burlingame |
Branford |
West Bend |
Berkeley |
Summerville |
Mount Olive |
Reynoldsburg |
Grand Prairie |
Danville |
Kankakee |
Brandon |
Hammond |
Yucca Valley |
West Chester |
Berlin |
Provincetown |
Corinth |
Enumclaw |
Monticello |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| communicate more powerfully than either | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | It is not the language of painters but the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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