| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| world about you, and trust to your own | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | situation nearly as interesting as |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | Allard |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| - Ansel Adams | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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Brooklyn |
Seattle |
Spartanburg |
Escondido |
Enid |
Southfield |
Hanover |
New Martinsville |
Virginia Beach |
Alexandria |
Winter Haven |
Olean |
Lansing |
Danbury |
Branford |
Madison |
Elizabethtown |
Midland |
Newark |
Phenix City |
Wiggins |
Elgin |
Roanoke |
Newport |
Ennis |
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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 a major force in explaining |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| - Sam Abell | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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