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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

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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
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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
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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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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

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