| 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 |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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San Antonio |
Indianapolis |
Fort Wayne |
Riverside |
Portland |
Tallahassee |
Cedar Rapids |
Springfield |
Nashville |
Turlock |
Farmington Hills |
Carlsbad |
Lakewood |
Elmira |
Chandler |
Akron |
Thomson |
Van Nuys |
Knoxville |
Wilsonville |
Rockmart |
Alcoa |
Waterbury |
Selinsgrove |
Conway |
Yardley |
Santa Clara |
Moberly |
Indian River |
Bellmawr |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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