| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Weston | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| One should really use the camera as though | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
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Miami |
Pittsburgh |
Baltimore |
Greenville |
Saginaw |
Lancaster |
St. Joseph |
Odessa |
Wausau |
Norman |
Fall River |
Meridian |
Redondo Beach |
Sumter |
Woodland Hills |
Los Gatos |
Dearborn |
Muncie |
Leavenworth |
Newark |
Festus |
Pascagoula |
Philippi |
Snyder |
Spring Hill |
Cedar City |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| world about you, and trust to your own | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| "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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