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As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.

Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Do we know what we look like? Not really.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Everything is one and I am one with it.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.