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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

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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
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
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
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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
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
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
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
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph

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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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