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

Ansel Adams

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph 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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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