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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera 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 only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
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 easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy 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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
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
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

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