Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMSToday, 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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.
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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 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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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