| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Adams |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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Indianapolis |
Wilmington |
Anchorage |
Boise |
Cincinnati |
Las Vegas |
Chula Vista |
Sacramento |
Tampa |
New Orleans |
Lakeland |
Moline |
Salem |
Fredericksburg |
Hillsdale |
La Plata |
Owensboro |
Burleson |
Boynton Beach |
Bradford |
St Petersburg Beach |
Kemah |
Bourne |
Athens |
Alamogordo |
Shawnee On Delaware |
Birmingham |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | - Edward Steichen |
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