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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

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
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
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
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
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

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