I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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