| I almost never set out to photograph a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Adams |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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Houston |
Phoenix |
Fort Worth |
Corpus Christi |
Brooklyn |
St. Paul |
Huntsville |
Cookeville |
Merced |
Grants Pass |
Bryan |
Alhambra |
Southaven |
Murray |
Union |
Mountain Home |
Duncanville |
Clinton |
White Bear Lake |
Shelbyville |
Cockeysville |
Schenectady |
Portales |
Atoka |
Newton |
Floral Park |
Minnetonka |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| those that you are going to make. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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