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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
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
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph

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