Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMSSometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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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 ‘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 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.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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