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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.

Ansel Adams

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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God Myself Photograph Place
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph

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