In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
~ Ansel Adams
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
