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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

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
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
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
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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 good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself

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