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"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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