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I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Edward Weston

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Clouds Interdepend Rocks Tree
……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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Composition Technique Way
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
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Important Photography Understanding
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Composition Strongest Way
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Artist Facts Thinking
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism… This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation – not interpretation.
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Essential Fog Rocks
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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Car Photography Yards
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Eye Opportunity Vision
When money enters in – then, for a price, I become a liar – and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.
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Hate Liars Support
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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Art Atatined Never Quit
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras – anything photographic – I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest – or without.
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Cameras Matter Photography
It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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Artist Cameras Telling Truth
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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Looks Photograph Values
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Mean Photographer Photography
For the obvious reason that nature – unadulterated and unimproved by man – is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.
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Arrangement Cameras Facts Lack Men

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