I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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