| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | those that you are going to make. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | That's life! - John Sexton |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Stuart |
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Duluth |
Lancaster |
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Dahlonega |
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Rogers |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Lange | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| be made. - Sam Abell | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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