| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| - Aaron Siskind | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Rowell |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| 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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Allard | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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