I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSImage quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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