| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| would be slowed down by painting or | be made. - Sam Abell |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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Columbus |
Dayton |
Downey |
Jamaica |
Lowell |
Herndon |
Fairfield |
Union |
Stoughton |
Pulaski |
Easton |
Cheyenne |
Lebanon |
Eaton |
Bloomsburg |
Springville |
College Station |
Collierville |
Manchester |
Solvang |
Summerville |
Norwalk |
Alamosa |
Winnemucca |
Eagle River |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | those that you are going to make. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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