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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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