Your favourite photographers

We disagree on that.

And by the way, he could see the image on the back of the camera before he inserted the film holder. Upside down, of course.

I think Jay Maisel's use of colour had some influence on me, from when I first saw his work in (I think) Popular Photography.
He still looks good.
www.jaymaisel.com/

In B&W, Willy Ronis is extremely good.

Don Cox

Which one? Since I don't follow the work of other photographers, there's a better than average chance I've never heard of it.

Hot tip. You can learn a lot about photography by looking at what others are doing, particularly those at the top of their game. Just like painters, writers and even Architects and Engineers learn a lot by using other peoples work as an influence and example.

Moonrise, Hernandez, NM, by Ansel Adams.

Anyone that has the slightest knowledge of kids would understand that the shot is not only posed, but the kids would have had to be bribed as well. Handsomely. The phrase "Herding cats" springs to mind

True, but looking at these types of shots won't teach me much about the types of photography I do. For example, I took my first intentional landscape shots on a family trip about 40 years after I started in photography and I've never yet gone out looking for something to shoot.

I've shot thousands of shots of groups of kids and never bribed them once.

Yeah, kids are sometimes too eager to be photographed, going out their way to pose and smile for the camera, ruining what should have been a candid shot.

We'll leave the current crop of drugged up ADD "sufferers" out of this

What kind of bigogted hatred is this?

I suppose you've never met anyone who had untreated ADHD. In kids, it can be pretty obvious. Adults can hide it better than kids can. I've seen it first hand in several people. You putting "sufferers" in quotations is uncalled for discrimination against the disabled and has no place in civilized society. You should be ashamed.

Ha ha ha. You would be quite wrong. My own Brother, and my cousin who I grew up with were both ADD. My Brother in law also, and possibly their daughter. So I understand the difference between that, & normal, typical kids that have boundless energy, and run amok at any opportunity. Like when 30 of them get together, and you try to get a photo. Unfortunately, these days parents can't seem to cope with normal children, rush them off to Doctors, child psychologists and such, where they're only too happy to feed them up on drugs for big Pharma's profit margins.
So you can stick your self righteous indignation & assumptions where the sun don't shine.

Then why are you denigrating people who have ADHD and who need medicine to function normally?

Makes no sense.

Seems to me you're the one who can't seem to cope with normal children. And attacking parents and doctors and psychologists now in addition to that.

Hmmm. Snowflakes out in force today it appears 😁😁

Only because you can't distinguish that I'm not denigrating those with ADD. I can't help that.

Obviously you're rather gifted then. And W.C. Fields was quite wrong when he said "never work with children or animals."

It's no use trying to help people who don't want to learn.
Don