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Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.

Larry

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it

Unknown

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn

Unknown

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.

Unknown

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art

Hakon Agustsson

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say

Unknown

Blessed be the inventor of photography It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

Unknown

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I"m glad I have that moment.

John Loengard

This is a perfect world I'm riding on an incline I'm staring in your face You'll photograph mine

Roland Barthes

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man Ray

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.

Edward Weston

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