| I almost never set out to photograph a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| 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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Oklahoma City |
Fresno |
Phoenix |
Amarillo |
Lakeland |
Duluth |
Baltimore |
Del Rio |
Midlothian |
Lawrenceville |
Clayton |
Rehoboth Beach |
Napa |
Omaha |
Oakland |
Riviera Beach |
Hampton |
Farmington |
San Bernardino |
North Hollywood |
Prestonsburg |
Georgetown |
Sturgis |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| You just have to care about what's around you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| 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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