| I almost never set out to photograph a | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Rowell | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| One should really use the camera as though | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| those that you are going to make. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
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