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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Ansel Adams

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake 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
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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 negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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 photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value

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