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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

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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God Myself Photograph Place
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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

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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