| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | - Sam Abell |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Rowell |
| 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | edges around some facts, you change those |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| world about you, and trust to your own | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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