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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.

Ansel Adams

Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
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
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
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
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
ANSEL ADAMS

Forever Illusion Time
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship

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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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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