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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Ansel Adams

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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 single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself 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
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

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