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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams

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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
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
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint 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 term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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

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