Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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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.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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