The craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSSome photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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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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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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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 – it is a concept.
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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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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.
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