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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World 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
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
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

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