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

Ansel Adams

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 photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
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
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World

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