| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Ansel Adams | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
|
|
Indianapolis |
Las Vegas |
Portland |
Salt Lake City |
Chandler |
Panama City |
Birmingham |
Laurinburg |
Phoenix |
Battle Creek |
West Monroe |
Norwood |
Walterboro |
Bristol |
Mount Holly |
Springfield |
St. Paul |
Morristown |
Bloomington |
Bremen |
Winterset |
Brighton |
Hazlet |
|
|
| ...words and pictures can work together to | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| communicate more powerfully than either | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Rowell |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | One should really use the camera as though |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | - Dorothea Lange |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
|