You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSDodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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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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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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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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