Hi,

Tuesday, December 31, 2002, 11:10:56 PM, you wrote:

> For photography it also helps to practice seeing.

well, that's certainly true. Elliott Erwitt said 'photography is
simply a function of noticing things'. But knowing something about
the principles of composition helps me, at least, understand the things
I see.

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 Bob  

"Avoid excessive study. It will give rise to a work destined to die with the workman"
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Science is the captain, practice the soldier"
- Leonardo again!

"Those who are obsessed with practice, but have no science, are like a pilot setting 
out with no tiller or compass, who will never know for certain where he is going"
- another one all the way from Vinci

"ostinato rigore"
- Leo's motto

"Pish-posh and balderdash"
- Mike Johnston

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