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

Ansel Adams

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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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

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