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

Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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 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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking

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

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