| 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 |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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Houston |
Seattle |
Chicago |
Milwaukee |
Toms River |
Virginia Beach |
Irving |
North Hollywood |
Jonesboro |
Saginaw |
Ashland |
Palm Beach Gardens |
Atmore |
Mount Shasta |
Campbell |
Pascagoula |
Pearl River |
Detroit Lakes |
Three Rivers |
Eastman |
Chicopee |
Plainwell |
Plainfield |
Shelbyville |
Gulf Breeze |
Anaheim Hills |
Odessa |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| Photography is about finding out what can | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | Rowell |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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