| One should really use the camera as though | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Dorothea Lange | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Weston | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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Murfreesboro |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | situation nearly as interesting as |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Allard |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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