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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
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
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image

Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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