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The craft of photography is the key to good images.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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