| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Rowell |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| Lange | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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Virginia Beach |
Oceanside |
Grand Prairie |
Beaufort |
West Des Moines |
Concord |
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Troy |
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Longview |
Austin |
Plymouth |
La Junta |
Weston |
Brandon |
Cinnaminson |
Maple Shade |
Woonsocket |
Endicott |
Lake Havasu City |
Yuma |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | situation nearly as interesting as |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Allard |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Photography is about finding out what can | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | Adams |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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