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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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself

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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