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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
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
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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