The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
Ansel AdamsWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel AdamsIt is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel AdamsWilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case statusโseen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
Ansel Adams