The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
I was in the right place at the right time.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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