| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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New Orleans |
Springfield |
Melbourne |
Sioux City |
Pasadena |
Deerfield Beach |
San Rafael |
Davie |
Albemarle |
Washington |
Concord |
Middletown |
Blackwell |
Huntington Station |
Clarksville |
Blaine |
Morrow |
Breckenridge |
Benton |
Winchester |
Fulton |
Ridgeway |
Clearfield |
Apex |
Tolleson |
Loganville |
Longboat |
Collinsville |
Falfurrias |
La Vale |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | Weston |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | One should really use the camera as though |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | - Dorothea Lange |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | 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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