I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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