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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

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
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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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

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