You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSTo 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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 horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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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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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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