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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
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

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