| Memory is very important, the memory of | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | more you realize what can be photographed |
| those that you are going to make. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| That's life! - John Sexton | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Houston |
New York |
Fort Lauderdale |
Longview |
West Palm Beach |
Cedar Rapids |
Charlottesville |
Johnson City |
Herndon |
Pineville |
Lynchburg |
Southern Pines |
Norfolk |
Lake Havasu City |
Bourbonnais |
Kenosha |
Thibodaux |
Arlington |
Greenfield |
Sebring |
Niles |
Millbrook |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Rowell | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| would be slowed down by painting or | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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