| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| be made. - Sam Abell | Rowell |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Weston |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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