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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness 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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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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