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

Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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
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
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
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit

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