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

Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
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
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
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
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
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph

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

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