| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| world about you, and trust to your own | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | would be slowed down by painting or |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Miami |
Wichita |
Pensacola |
Cleveland |
Augusta |
Cambridge |
Huntington |
Dayton |
Fountain Valley |
Lakewood |
Wilson |
Port Angeles |
Frederick |
Battle Creek |
Manheim |
Bullhead City |
Pasadena |
Baker City |
Beaumont |
Hibbing |
Hamilton |
Price |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| communicate more powerfully than either | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| edges around some facts, you change those | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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