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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.

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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness 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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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint 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
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
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

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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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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