| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Adams |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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