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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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 knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself 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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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

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