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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile 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
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

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