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

Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself

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