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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

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
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking

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