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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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