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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake 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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
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
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
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
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

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

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