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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.

Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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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Believe Environment Life Myself
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust

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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