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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

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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 visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst

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