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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Ansel Adams

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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
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
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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 single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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

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