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

Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
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
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
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
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality

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