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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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

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