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.
ANSEL ADAMSSome 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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