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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

Ansel Adams

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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
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
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
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself

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