A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSBad weather makes for good photography.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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