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No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes the picture.

~ Doug Bartlow

Sonoma Coast

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I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

- Henry Wessel

A Night in San Jose

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When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

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If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.

- Robert Capa

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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

- Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams in 1930 had been training to become a concert pianist while considering a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that "the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny." His mother and aunt both pleaded, "Do not give up the piano! The camera cannot express the human soul!" To which Adams replied, "The camera cannot, but the photographer can."

- Ansel Adams
in "Black & White Magazine for Collector of Fine Photography"
October 2000, Page: 76

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I photograph anything that can be exposed to light. The reason during the twenties that I photographed plants was that I had three children under the age of four to take care of so I was cooped up. I had a garden available and I photographed them indoors.
Later when I was free I did other things.

- Imogen Cunningham

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Photography takes an instant out of time,
altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange