| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| more you realize what can be photographed | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| You just have to care about what's around you | communicate more powerfully than either |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | - Dorothea Lange |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | - Sam Abell |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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