Quotes+<3

This page has a bunch of quotes about photography, as well as my reflection on them !

"You don't take a photograph. You make it." - Ansel Adams I find this very true. No two photographs will ever be the same, wherefore you make it, and no one else will be able to take the same picture.

// “ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." – Matt Hard //  True. Half of the meaning of the photograph is in the eye of the beholder. One picture can be interpreted completely different and mean so much more to one person than the next. A picture can mean nothing to one person, and bring another person to tears.

// “Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment." – Elliott Erwitt //  So true. You can't sit at home and say, "I'm going to take an amazing picture, create an amazing picture". You have to go out and take them. You have to go see different sites, and make sure to keep the camera with you. If you find a truly beautiful sunset, and you don't have a camera to capture the moment, the same sunset will never come back. You can't come back later and take the picture. Nothing is ever the same.

// “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” - Ted Grant // That is so true. Many photographs have different meanings and different interpretations when it's in black and white. Most of the time, when you photograph in color, people are focusing on all of the color distortions and such. But when you photograph in black and white, you see so much more meaning.

// “ 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." – William Albert Allard //   <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">I completely agree. If you take pictures that look no different from any other photographers, then it won't be anything special.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;">// “ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good." – Anonymous // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;">  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 13px;">That is true. You shouldn't explain your pictures or why you took them. You should let them interpret it for themselves.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 15px;">// "A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere." - Bill Brandt // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 13px;">Exactly. You have to be willing to wait for an amazing picture than take a ton that don't live up to what you're capable of. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">