The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSThe craft of photography is the key to good images.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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