"A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
~ Ansel Adams ~












Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment...
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"You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
"Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
"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...
"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
"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.