There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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 hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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