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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Ansel Adams

Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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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