Landscape Photography Quotes

• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

  Matt Hardy

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• Beauty can be seen in all things.

  Matt Hardy

  Photography, Portraits, Photographer

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• Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Mistake, Technology

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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• Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Real, World

  Arnold Newman, Bruce Weber (1988). “Arnold Newman in Florida”, David R Godine Pub

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• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Feels

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• We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Thinking, Landscape

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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  A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Needs, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, World, May

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• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, American West, People

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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Knowing, Photographer

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Expression, Photographer

  "A Personal Credo". American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58, 1944.

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Thinking, Landscape

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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• It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

  Michael Kenna

  Running, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Thinking, Computer

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• There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Photographer, Brilliant

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• Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

  Ansel Adams

  Notebook, Photography, Photographer

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