You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSThe quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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