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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

Ansel Adams

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
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
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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 great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

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