Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMSThere is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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