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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.

Edward Weston

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  This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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  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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