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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

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
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World

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