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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking

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