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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

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
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
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
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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

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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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