| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Corpus Christi |
Charlotte |
Dothan |
Quincy |
Portland |
Vista |
Racine |
Scottsdale |
Los Gatos |
Bensalem |
Meridian |
Grand Prairie |
Freeport |
Harrison |
Vineland |
Neosho |
Davison |
Sauk Centre |
Ceres |
La Pine |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | It is not the language of painters but the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | world about you, and trust to your own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "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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