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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
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
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
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
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice

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