| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | You just have to care about what's around you |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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Modesto |
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Arlington |
South Bend |
Alliance |
Stuart |
Quincy |
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Rhinelander |
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Farmington |
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Mansfield |
Schaumburg |
Rogers |
Bridgewater |
O Fallon |
Thibodaux |
Hudson |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | would be slowed down by painting or |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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