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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMS

Collection Myself Thinking
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS

Inspirational People Photograph View
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

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