| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | has to transform the photographer into an |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| more you realize what can be photographed | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Sam Abell |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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San Francisco |
Amarillo |
Jackson |
San Jose |
Fresno |
Naples |
Tyler |
St. Louis |
Oxnard |
Brockton |
Green Bay |
Grand Junction |
Jupiter |
Pierre |
Newport |
Lebanon |
Blackwood |
Incline Village |
Yukon |
Falfurrias |
Owasso |
Scottsbluff |
Circleville |
Oswego |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| be made. - Sam Abell | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is about finding out what can |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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