| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Detroit |
Aurora |
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Vallejo |
Roanoke |
Zanesville |
Cabot |
Whiteville |
Carol Stream |
Lapeer |
La Jolla |
Alamosa |
North Haven |
Wake Forest |
Eastsound |
Torrington |
Los Altos |
Central City |
Havre De Grace |
Cross Lanes |
De Land |
Minden |
Mission Viejo |
Killington |
Live Oak |
Dundee |
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| 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 |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| world about you, and trust to your own | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | Rowell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| - Ansel Adams | 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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