| I almost never set out to photograph a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Rowell | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | - Ansel Adams |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | |
| | 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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Los Angeles |
Cleveland |
San Francisco |
Oakland |
Youngstown |
Bakersfield |
Bronx |
New Bern |
Stockbridge |
Jonesboro |
Longmont |
Estes Park |
Lafayette |
Lock Haven |
Alma |
Burlington |
La Jolla |
Hampton |
Phillipsburg |
Roswell |
Apache Junction |
Hernando |
Rockingham |
Carthage |
Calabasas |
Sutton |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | Adams |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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