| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| be made. - Sam Abell | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Adams |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Scottsdale |
Mesa |
Sioux Falls |
Augusta |
Boca Raton |
Fairfax |
Midland |
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Palm Harbor |
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Victoria |
Daytona Beach |
Statesville |
Birmingham |
Metairie |
Broomfield |
Monroe |
West Seneca |
Fort Worth |
Hickory |
East Liverpool |
Floresville |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| those that you are going to make. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| That's life! - John Sexton | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| edges around some facts, you change those | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | would be slowed down by painting or |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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