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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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