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.
ANSEL ADAMSImage 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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSThe craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMSThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMSWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMSI knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSImpression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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