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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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
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
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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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 photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
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
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

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