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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.

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If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

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

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I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

Curves, Extraordinary Beauty, Figure, Greeks, Home, Movement

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

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