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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Ansel Adams

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
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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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
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
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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

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