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

Ansel Adams

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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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

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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