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Bad weather makes for good photography.

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
Weather
Photography
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Good

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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 [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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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 next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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