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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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 best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
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
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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 true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person 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
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust

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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