Ansel adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops,...

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

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...

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

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...

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up...

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.