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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When im

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams

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In my minds 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. – Ansel Adams

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Sometimes I do get to places just when Gods ready to have somebody click the shutter. – Ansel Adams

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. – Tony Benn

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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. – Duane Michals

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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen

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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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