| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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New York |
San Francisco |
Houston |
Amarillo |
Mansfield |
Warren |
Houma |
Sarasota |
Union City |
Johnson City |
Port Charlotte |
Gaithersburg |
New Holland |
Fairfield |
Edina |
Boerne |
Michigan City |
Culpeper |
Rancho Cordova |
Citrus Heights |
Sanford |
Helena |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | be made. - Sam Abell |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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