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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.



Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic.



Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.



Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be



My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.



Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . .



When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.



Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.



Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.



Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.



I was extravagant in the matter of cameras anything photographic I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest or without.



Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.








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