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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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