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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

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
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
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
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View

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