You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSThe term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I 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.
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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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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy 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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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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