| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | those that you are going to make. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | That's life! - John Sexton |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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