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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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 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
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need

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