| 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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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Weston |
| 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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New York |
Riverside |
Alton |
Bloomington |
Ashland |
Folsom |
Ramsey |
Shrewsbury |
Boca Raton |
El Reno |
Flushing |
Mansfield |
Lake Mary |
Oshkosh |
Placerville |
Yukon |
Sturgis |
Port Charlotte |
Dublin |
Celina |
Le Claire |
Gallatin |
North Richland Hills |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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