| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Rowell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| be made. - Sam Abell | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Omaha |
Chicago |
San Francisco |
Washington |
Wilmington |
Monroe |
Fayetteville |
Westminster |
Modesto |
Florence |
Portsmouth |
Carrollton |
Weirton |
Apex |
Janesville |
Grand Blanc |
Driggs |
Dana Point |
Beaumont |
Stroudsburg |
Twinsburg |
Tahlequah |
Madison |
Springfield |
Berlin |
Saratoga Springs |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | communicate more powerfully than either |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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