Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMSLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMSToday, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSSometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMSTwelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMSI knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSArt is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSTo photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSWe 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.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
ANSEL ADAMSAs 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.
ANSEL ADAMSThere is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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