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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
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
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance 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
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

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