The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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