| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Rowell | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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Tucson |
Jacksonville |
Baltimore |
Huntington Beach |
Schenectady |
Burlingame |
Tulare |
Santa Maria |
Batesville |
Columbus |
Griffin |
Zumbrota |
Montebello |
Collins |
Middleburg Heights |
Clearfield |
Branford |
Aberdeen |
Calera |
Rochester |
Monroe |
Killington |
Longwood |
Opelika |
Delafield |
Russellville |
Cape Girardeau |
Blairsville |
Panama City |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| world about you, and trust to your own | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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