Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMSAs 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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