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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
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
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
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
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

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