| No place is boring, if you've had a good | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | world about you, and trust to your own |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| more you realize what can be photographed | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| - Dorothea Lange | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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