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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

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
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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
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

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