| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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Philadelphia |
Brooklyn |
Pittsburgh |
Houston |
Mentor |
Omaha |
Fredericksburg |
Tulsa |
West Orange |
High Point |
Pierre |
Palo Alto |
Ellenton |
Emmetsburg |
Vernon |
Twentynine Palms |
Ceres |
Willows |
Georgetown |
Ionia |
Portsmouth |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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