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

Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
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
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
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

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