| 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. |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Allard | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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Phoenix |
Washington |
San Antonio |
Sacramento |
Lexington |
Portland |
Staten Island |
Arlington |
Spokane |
Amsterdam |
Belleville |
Beckley |
Gallatin |
Milford |
Searcy |
Holyoke |
Auburn Hills |
Valparaiso |
Warrington |
Elizabeth City |
Newport |
Oak Brook Terrace |
Encino |
Manheim |
Radcliff |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | edges around some facts, you change those |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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