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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Ansel Adams

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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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 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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

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