We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
ANSEL ADAMSLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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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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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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