Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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 true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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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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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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