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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Ansel Adams

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.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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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