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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

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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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
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
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph

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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