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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
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
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time 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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust

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