| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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Miami |
Charleston |
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Vineland |
Austin |
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Seattle |
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Auburn |
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Winter Garden |
Ithaca |
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Nashville |
Urbandale |
Watertown |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Weston |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| Adams | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
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