Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMSBad weather makes for good photography.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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To 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.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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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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