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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake 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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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
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
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
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
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual

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