I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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