A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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