A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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