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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.

Ansel Adams

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness 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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
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

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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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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