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

Ansel Adams

Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars 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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position

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

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