Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMSYosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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