When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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 camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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