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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Ansel Adams

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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
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
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
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
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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