A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMSHow high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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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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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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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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