| I almost never set out to photograph a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | those that you are going to make. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | That's life! - John Sexton |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Rowell | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Akron |
Columbus |
Beaumont |
Downey |
Canton |
Evansville |
Mansfield |
Mesa |
Portsmouth |
Knoxville |
Somerset |
Hermitage |
Plano |
Craig |
Londonderry |
Okeechobee |
Hurst |
Denville |
Shippensburg |
Dover |
Winnsboro |
West Coxsackie |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | Lange |
| Adams | |
| | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Stieglitz |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Aaron Siskind |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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