The craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSWe 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Image 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.
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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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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 true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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