Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Light makes photography. Embrace light.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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