| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | world about you, and trust to your own |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Adams | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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San Francisco |
St. Louis |
Birmingham |
Johnson City |
Rome |
Delray Beach |
Ithaca |
Sacramento |
Sherman |
Coraopolis |
Gary |
Blackfoot |
Bemidji |
Hamburg |
Lewes |
Hillsville |
Tracy |
Cartersville |
Benton |
Travelers Rest |
Big Stone Gap |
Sulphur Springs |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is about finding out what can |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| - Sam Abell | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| would be slowed down by painting or | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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