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... it is not everyone who has the time to see a building in all its phases of beauty and effect, or has the power of isolating those beauties, and so realising the more subtle and recondite charms a great building has, but gives up only to patient study and trained observation ...
Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943), architectural photographer, in the address he gave at the opening of his exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society in London, on 25 April 1900.
‘Patient study and trained observation’ must be the foundation stones of successful architectural photography, along with sufficient technical knowledge ...
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