You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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