The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMS
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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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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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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