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Bad weather makes for good photography.

Ansel Adams

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
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
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
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
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
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
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
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
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
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time

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