| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | It is not the language of painters but the |
| those that you are going to make. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | world about you, and trust to your own |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Rowell | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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