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.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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