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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph

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