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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Ansel Adams

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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph

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