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The strong desire to take pictures is important

The strong desire to take pictures is important.

It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully--and the evidence that other photographers have done so--that keep us taking pictures.  - Sam Abell, Seeing and Shooting Straight by Sam Abell

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I hate cameras

I hate cameras.

They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter. - Richard Avedon

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A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation

A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them.

It evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscience choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and releases the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo … and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo. - Anonymous.

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It accounts for my decision to photograph

The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph …

There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years I still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.  - Robert Adams, On Being a Photographer :

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Poignant pictures, path of enthusiasm

To shoot poignant pictures we only need follow the path of our enthusiasm .

I believe that this feeling is the universe's way of telling us that we are doing the right thing. The viewing public will always disagree over the intrinsic merits of a particular photograph, but no one can deny the enthusiasm that originally inspired us to capture and offer that image to others.  - Timothy Allen - On choosing subject matter

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