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.
ANSEL ADAMSIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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