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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People

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