Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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