| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Weston |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| - Ansel Adams | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Cedar Rapids |
Honolulu |
Fort Worth |
Jacksonville |
West Chester |
Florissant |
Lawrence |
Evanston |
Indio |
Richmond |
Peachtree City |
Shrewsbury |
Okmulgee |
Saugus |
Traverse City |
Marina Del Rey |
Salisbury |
Chinle |
Pickwick Dam |
Reno |
Shell Beach |
Malvern |
Barre |
Driggs |
Belton |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you realize what can be photographed | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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