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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness 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
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
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
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph 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 quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

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