Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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