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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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 negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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