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.

Ansel Adams
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A good photograph is a combination of what you see and what you know. The photograph itself is a deeply personal creation that comes from a mixture of the things you have seen and the people you have met. When you frame a scene in a photograph, it is capturing an image that is already in your mind. 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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  2. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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