| I almost never set out to photograph a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Rowell | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | - Ansel Adams |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
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