| I almost never set out to photograph a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | those that you are going to make. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | That's life! - John Sexton |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| Rowell | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| world about you, and trust to your own | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Adams |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| - Ansel Adams | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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