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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

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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
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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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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