The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMSLife 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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