| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | 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 almost never set out to photograph a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| Rowell | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | those that you are going to make. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Weston | |
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