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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Ansel Adams

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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
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
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember

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