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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Ansel Adams

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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
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
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
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
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
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 term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst

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