Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMSA good photograph is knowing where to stand.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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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 not an accident – it is a concept.
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