| One should really use the camera as though | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | those that you are going to make. |
| - Dorothea Lange | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | communicate more powerfully than either |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Weston | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Fresno |
Boca Raton |
Charlotte |
Mansfield |
San Antonio |
Ocala |
Coral Springs |
Panama City |
Edina |
Monroe |
Camarillo |
Stephens City |
Willoughby |
Newport |
La Plata |
Salina |
Greenville |
Merrimack |
Jacksonville |
Yucca Valley |
Sedalia |
Menominee |
Weston |
Cherokee |
Wormleysburg |
Clayton |
Snoqualmie |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | situation nearly as interesting as |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Allard |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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