| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | It is not the language of painters but the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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Chicago |
Brooklyn |
Worcester |
Warren |
Corona |
Jacksonville |
Fitzgerald |
Bolingbrook |
Winter Haven |
Monterey Park |
Plymouth |
Niles |
Miami Beach |
Millbrook |
Ashtabula |
Northborough |
Encino |
Alcoa |
Des Moines |
Cuba |
Turlock |
St. Pauls |
Van Wert |
Tahoe City |
Westlake |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | those that you are going to make. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | 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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