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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

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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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking

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

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