| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Rowell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | 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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Sandy |
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Antigo |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | - Edward Steichen |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | communicate more powerfully than either |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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