| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| Adams | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | world about you, and trust to your own |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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Wilmington |
Fairfax |
Fond Du Lac |
Jacksonville Beach |
Kingsport |
Pekin |
Niles |
Rowland Heights |
Clovis |
Davie |
Burbank |
Bedford |
Wapakoneta |
Enterprise |
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Toms River |
Sullivan |
Bristol |
Hamden |
Broken Bow |
West Palm Beach |
Kimball Township |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | - Edward Steichen |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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