Every photograph is a crystallization of experience

"Every photograph is a crystallization of experience - of real value to the maker and potential value to the spectator"

- Ansel Adams 

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 Cloudland Canyon State Park, GA, USA

Fujifilm X-T3

Quotated: Captured Forever...

 "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.  What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything"

 - Aaron Siskind

Quotated - One fails forward...

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

C.S. Lewis

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Quotated

"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."

Ansel Adams

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iPhone 7:     1/4167 sec,   f/1.8,    ISO-20

St. Ellen Mine Park, O'Fallon, IL

Quotated

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

- Elliott Erwitt

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Quotated

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

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Quotated

"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."

 - George Eastman

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Quotated

"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."

- Robert Frank

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Photo Quotes #42,075

"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

Photo Quotes #42063

"It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy"

 - Elliott Erwitt

Photo Quotes #42047

"To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photo Quotes #42031

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."- Ansel Adams