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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams

In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
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 great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself 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
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS

Negative Performance Photograph

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

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