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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

Ansel Adams

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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
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
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression

It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

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