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

Ansel Adams

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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God Myself Photograph Place
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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 the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit

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

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