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

Ansel Adams

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
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
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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