You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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 only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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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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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Some 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.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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