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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.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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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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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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