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

Ansel Adams

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
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
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

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