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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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 horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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

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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