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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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
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
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality

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