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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
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
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
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
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

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