| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| It is not the language of painters but the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | 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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Wilmington |
Ventura |
Norfolk |
Lima |
New Braunfels |
Lorain |
Durant |
Las Cruces |
Monroe |
Macomb |
Lake Worth |
Osceola |
Checotah |
Tarzana |
Bellevue |
Fairview Heights |
Cockeysville |
Poway |
Hillsville |
South San Francisco |
San Marcos |
Geneva |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | those that you are going to make. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | That's life! - John Sexton |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Photography is about finding out what can |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | edges around some facts, you change those |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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