Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]

 Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. 
 When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. 
 I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before ones eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning. 
 No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain cannot be denied—it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. 
 There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. 
 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. 
 Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. 
 You don’t take a photograph, you make it. 
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