| Photography takes an instant out of time, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you realize what can be photographed |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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Bellflower |
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Harlingen |
Winder |
Belmont |
Santa Fe |
El Campo |
Winnsboro |
Sacramento |
Osceola |
Worland |
Marshall |
Barre |
Mt Pleasant |
Yorba Linda |
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Aventura |
Milpitas |
Bakersfield |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| those that you are going to make. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| That's life! - John Sexton | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| communicate more powerfully than either | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| Photography is about finding out what can | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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