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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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God Myself Photograph Place
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
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMS

Bad Climate Goodness Photograph

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