| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Weston | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Photography is about finding out what can |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| Rowell | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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Washington |
Tucson |
Omaha |
Savannah |
Virginia Beach |
Tulsa |
Providence |
St. Louis |
Jacksonville Beach |
Ada |
Victorville |
Suffolk |
Bethesda |
Albany |
Terre Haute |
Travelers Rest |
Logan |
El Cajon |
Van Buren |
Sunnyvale |
Rowland Heights |
Monroe |
Middleboro |
Cortland |
Paintsville |
Avalon |
Rochester |
Kennewick |
New Haven |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| world about you, and trust to your own | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 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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