| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | communicate more powerfully than either |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
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New York |
Washington |
El Paso |
Greenville |
Trenton |
Providence |
Santa Barbara |
Arlington |
Montgomery |
Long Island City |
Ann Arbor |
Salt Lake City |
Lancaster |
New Port Richey |
Statesboro |
Addison |
Woonsocket |
Berlin |
Beatrice |
Stone Mountain |
Milwaukie |
Carrollton |
Solvang |
Seaford |
Seguin |
Marietta |
Cohoes |
Fort Dodge |
Dry Ridge |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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