| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | - Sam Abell |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| more you realize what can be photographed | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| world about you, and trust to your own | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| 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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