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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

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
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 don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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 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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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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