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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.

Ansel Adams

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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 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
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
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph

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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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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