I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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