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

Ansel Adams

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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself

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

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