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

Ansel Adams

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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
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
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology

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

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