| I almost never set out to photograph a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Rowell | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| 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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San Diego |
Omaha |
Alexandria |
Spring Hill |
Sarasota |
Springfield |
Jackson |
Dallas |
Redwood City |
High Point |
Chelsea |
Peachtree City |
Lenoir |
Leavenworth |
Folsom |
Stephenville |
Beckley |
Madeira Beach |
Salem |
Newport |
Carol Stream |
Gallatin |
Tampa Area (Brandon) |
Mineral Wells |
Montezuma |
Strongsville |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | those that you are going to make. |
| Adams | That's life! - John Sexton |
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