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

Ansel Adams

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
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
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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
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

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

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