I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
Ansel AdamsPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel AdamsThe disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
Ansel AdamsThe โmachine-gunโ approach to photography โ by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good โ is fatal to serious results.
Ansel Adams