| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| situation nearly as interesting as | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Allard | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Stieglitz |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | - Ansel Adams |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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