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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.

Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
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
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph

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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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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