A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSA good photograph is knowing where to stand.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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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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