| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| edges around some facts, you change those | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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Louisville |
Burlingame |
Houma |
Cape Coral |
Safford |
Janesville |
Santa Ana |
Highland |
Jackson |
Michigan City |
Amarillo |
Florence |
Huntsville |
The Woodlands |
Montvale |
Rocky Hill |
San Luis Obispo |
Burr Ridge |
Ainsworth |
Rockville Centre |
Monterey |
Rockingham |
Vaughn |
Roosevelt |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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