| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | Stieglitz |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | It is not the language of painters but the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| Rowell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | world about you, and trust to your own |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| situation nearly as interesting as | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| Allard | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | those that you are going to make. |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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