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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

Ansel Adams

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
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
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMS

Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon

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