| One should really use the camera as though | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Houston |
New York |
Bronx |
Baton Rouge |
Chicago |
Santa Ana |
Winter Park |
Ogden |
Sacramento |
Culver City |
Erie |
Mountain View |
Scottsboro |
Somerset |
Edmonds |
Brighton |
Marietta |
Erwin |
Corvallis |
Cheyenne |
Katy |
Jensen Beach |
Long Branch |
Lugoff |
Altamonte Springs |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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