Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMSHow high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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 knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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