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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

Ansel Adams

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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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

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