| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Rowell |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| world about you, and trust to your own | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "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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New York |
San Diego |
Irvine |
Poughkeepsie |
New Haven |
Mansfield |
Simpsonville |
Safford |
Muscle Shoals |
North Fort Myers |
Mexico |
Hazel Park |
Gloucester |
Astoria |
Olive Branch |
Warrensburg |
Bennettsville |
Lenox |
Hillsboro |
Temple Terrace |
Grand Prairie |
Lugoff |
St Michaels |
Maryland Heights |
Fresno |
Mcminnville |
Fort Atkinson |
Walland |
Baton Rouge |
Burlingame |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Edward Steichen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | situation nearly as interesting as |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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