Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMSTo photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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Some 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.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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