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

Ansel Adams

Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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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