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

Ansel Adams

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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
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
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
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
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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 usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint 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
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
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
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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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
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

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