You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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