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Photographers tend not to photograph what they can__ see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we__e going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?
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Photographers tend not to photograph what they can__ see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we__e going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

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