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

Ansel Adams

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
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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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom

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

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