| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | situation nearly as interesting as |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Allard |
| Rowell | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| - Sam Abell | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Montgomery |
Stockton |
Springfield |
Roanoke |
La Grange |
Lakewood |
Savage |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| be made. - Sam Abell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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