| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| - Aaron Siskind | Adams |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| Rowell | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| One should really use the camera as though | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
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