| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | those that you are going to make. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | That's life! - John Sexton |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Photography is about finding out what can |
| Rowell | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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