A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSYou 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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