I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of ….

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has bee….

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds..

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life..

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you..

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the….

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results..

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite..

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than mone….

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!.

We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simp….

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept..

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on ano….

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression..

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful..

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the b….

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world..

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space..

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble ….

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 pr….