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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Ansel Adams

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
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

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

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