A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMSWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe 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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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