| One should really use the camera as though | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| Weston | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | |
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Chicago |
Fort Wayne |
Canton |
Whittier |
Hartford |
Seattle |
Tampa |
Evansville |
Santa Barbara |
Sunnyvale |
Altoona |
Alameda |
Ripley |
Ashland |
Conover |
Burlington |
Gatesville |
Lynchburg |
Langhorne |
Durant |
Harlan |
Captiva Island |
Kenton |
Lafayette |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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