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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique

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