| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Rowell |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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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Sioux Falls |
Bronx |
Norman |
Cypress |
Wichita |
Olympia |
La Place |
Sterling |
Stevens Point |
Moscow |
Capitol Heights |
Ruidoso Downs |
West Point |
Aberdeen |
Morgan City |
Ottawa |
Steamboat Springs Hilltop |
Tipp City |
Stockbridge |
Troy |
Wailea Maui |
Franklin |
Londonderry |
Miami Lakes |
Richmond |
Carlstadt |
Orange |
Sterling |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| 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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