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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”

Ansel Adams

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
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
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
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”

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