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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

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 term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
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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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
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

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

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