Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. - Marcel Duchamp If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

- Robert Doisneau If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. - Edward Weston I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. - Alfred Eisenstaedt ABdul kalaam quotes Quotes Wings of Fire We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give w ings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness. I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man aw ay from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the he art. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-r ealisation. (p. 15) ... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are ac complished when you are relaxed and free of doubt. (p. 31) One of the important functions of prayer, I believe, is to act as a stimulus to creative ideas. Within the mind are all the resources required for successfu l living. Ideas are present in the consciousness, which when released and given scope to grow and take shape, can lead to successful events. God, our Creator, h as stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and abili ty. Prayer helps to tap and develop these powers. (p. 32) My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from B enjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in t his part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of th em rather than suffer them. (p. 38) I often read Khalil Gibran, and always find his words full of wisdom. "Bread baked without love is a bitter bread that feeds but half a man's hunger" those wh o cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. If you are a writer who would secretly prefer to b e a lawyer or a doctor, your written words will feed but half the hunger of your readers; if you are a teacher who would rather be a businessman, your instructi ons will meet but half the need for knowledge of your students; if you are a sci entist who hates science, your performance will satisfy but half the needs of yo ur mission. (p. 45) I have always been a religious person in the sense that I maintain a working partnership with God. I was aware that the best work required more ability than I possessed and therefore I needed help that only God could give me. I made a t rue estimate of my own ability, then raised it by 50 per cent and put myself in God's hands. In this partnership, I have always received all the power I needed, and in fact have actually felt it flowing through me. Today, I can affirm that the kingdom of God is within you in the form of this power, to help achieve your goals and realise your dreams. (p.49) I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mis takes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persisten ce to perfection. I have always supported learning on the part of my team member s by paying vigilant attention to each of their attempts, be they successful or

unsuccessful. (p. 58) I was (and am) a terrible conversationist but consider myself a good communi cator. (p. 76) To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goa l. Individuals like myself are often called 'workaholics'. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desi re more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. (p. 89) Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and wome n. (p. 90) I have used the word 'flow' at many places without really elaborating its me aning. What is this flow? And what are these joys? I could call them moments of magic. I see an anology between these moments and the high that you experience w hen you play badminton or go jogging. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow, action follows action according to an i nternal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention on the part of the wo rker. There is no hurry, there are no distracting demands on one's attention. Th e past and the future disappear. So does the distinction between self and the ac tivity. (p. 91) To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction. (p. 96) To live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a m ountain to reach the peak without experiencing its sides. The sides of the mount ain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow, experience gained, an d technologies are mastered. The importance of peak lies only in the fact that i t defines the sides. So I went on towards the top, but always experiencing the s ides. I had a long way to go but I was in no hurry. I went in little steps just on e step after another but each step towards the top. (p. 98) Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choi ces, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against y ou. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choo se correctly between them. (p. 106) Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to maki ng rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the scienc e of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience. (p. 121) It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in havi ng it over and done with. (p. 135) A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering tha t it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. I nstead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of G od, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.' (p. 135 or p. 136 in cert ain university press editions) I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the i nner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been t o look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come. (p. 140) This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the o

pportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search a mong the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins. (p. 14 0) Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. (p. 161) I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model fo r anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. I t could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness. (p. 167) Are you aware of your inner signals? Do you trust them? Do you have the focu s of control over your life in your own hands? Take this from me, the more decis ions you can make avoiding external pressures, which will constantly try to mani pulate and immobilise you, the better your life will be, the better your society will become. The entire nation will benifit from having strong, inner-directed people as their leaders. (p. 175) Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright t o be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way ot hers say they should be done. (p. 176) Dreams are not what you see in sleep. They are the things that do not let yo u sleep "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life." "Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisatio n and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity." "When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust ... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful an d bad..." "What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful and to remove the wrongs of injured..." "Away! Fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more! Work claimed my wakeful nights, m y busy days Albeit brought memories of Rameswaram shore Yet haunt my dreaming ga ze!" "I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for a nybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged soc ial setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It c ould perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their il lusory backwardness and hopelessness?.." "My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my qual ity Does however appear "

------------------------If your pictures aren t good enough, you re not close enough. -Robert Capa My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol 1. Just because someone has an expensive camera doesn t mean that they re a good pho tographer. 2. Always shoot in RAW. Always. 3. Prime lenses help you learn to be a better photographer. 4. Photo editing is an art in itself. 5. The rule of thirds works 99% of the time. 6. Macro photography isn t for everybody. 7. UV filters work just as well as lens caps. 8. Go outside and shoot photos rather than spending hours a day on photography f orums. 9. Capture the beauty in the mundane and you have a winning photograph. 10. Film isn t better than digital. 11. Digital isn t better than film. 12. 13. Better lenses don t give you better photos. 14. Spend less time looking at other people s work and more time shooting your own . 15. Don t take your DSLR to parties. 16. Girls dig photographers. 17. Making your photos b/w doesn t automatically make them artsy . 18. People will always discredit your work if you tell them you photoshop your ima ges. Rather, tell them that you process them in the digital darkroom . 19. You don t need to take a photo of everything. 20. Have at least 2 backups of all your images. Like they say in war, two is one , one is none. 21. Ditch the neck strap and get a handstrap. 22. Get closer when taking your photos, they often turn out better. 23. Be a part of a scene while taking a photo; not a voyeur.

24. Taking a photo crouched often make your photos look more interesting. 25. Worry less about technical aspects and focus more on compositional aspects o f photography. 26. Tape up any logos on your camera with black gaffers tape- it brings a lot le ss attention to you. 27. Always underexpose by 2/3rds of a stop when shooting in broad daylight. 28. The more photos you take, the better you get. 29. Don t be afraid to take several photos of the same scene at different exposure s, angles, or apertures. 30. Only show your best photos. 31. A point-and-shoot is still a camera. 32. Join an online photography forum. 33. Critique the works of others. 34. Think before you shoot. 35. A good photo shouldn t require explanation (although background information of ten adds to an image). *36. Alcohol and photography do not mix well. 37. Draw inspiration from other photographers but never worship them. 38. Grain is beautiful. 39. Ditch the photo backpack and get a messenger bag. It makes getting your lens es and camera a whole lot easier. 40. Simplicity is key. 41. The definition of photography is: painting with light. . 42. Find your style of photography and stick with it. 43. Having a second monitor is the best thing ever for photo processing. 44. Silver EFEX pro is the best b/w converter. 45. 46. Never let photography get in the way of enjoying life. 47. Don t pamper your camera. Use and abuse it. 48. Take straight photos. 49. Shoot with confidence. 50. Photography and juxtaposition are best friends. 51. Print out your photos big. They will make you happy. Use light in your favor

52. Give your photos to friends. 53. Give them to strangers. 54. Don t forget to frame them. 55. Costco prints are cheap and look great. 56. Go out and take photos with (a) friend(s). 57. Join a photo club or start one for yourself. 58. Photos make great presents. 59. Taking photos of strangers is thrilling. 60. Candid>Posed. 61. Natural light is the best light. 62. 35mm (on full frame) is the best walk-around focal length.

63. Don t be afraid to bump up your ISO when necessary. 64. You don t need to always bring a tripod with you everywhere you go 65. It is always better to underexpose than overexpose. 66. Shooting photos of homeless people in an attempt to be artsy is exploitation.

67. You will find the best photo opportunities in the least likely situations. 68. Photos are always more interesting with the human element included. 69. You can t Photoshop bad images into good ones.

70. Nowadays everybody is a photographer. 71. You don t need to fly to Paris to get good photos; the best photo opportunitie s are in your backyard. 72. People with DSLRS who shoot portraits with their grip pointed downwards look like morons. 73. Cameras as tools, not toys. 74. In terms of composition, photography and painting aren t much different. 75. Photography isn t a hobby- it s a lifestyle. 76. Make photos, not excuses. 77. Be original in your photography. Don t try to copy the style of others. 78. The best photographs tell stories that begs the viewer for more. 79. Any cameras but black ones draw too much attention. 80. The more gear you carry around with you the less you will enjoy photography.

81. Good self-portraits are harder to take than they seem. 82. Laughter always draws out peoples true character in a photograph.

83. Don t look suspicious when taking photos- blend in with the environment. 84. Landscape photography can become dull after a while. 85. Have fun while taking photos. 86. Never delete any of your photos. 87. Be respectful when taking photos of people or places. 88. When taking candid photos of people in the street, it is easier to use a wid e-angle than a telephoto lens. 89. Travel and photography are the perfect pair. 90. Learn how to read a histogram. 91. A noisy photo is better than a blurry one. 92. Don t be afraid to take photos in the rain. 93. Learn how to enjoy the moment, rather than relentlessly trying to capture th e perfect picture of it. 94. Never take photos on an empty stomach. 95. You will discover a lot about yourself through your photography. 96. Never hoard your photographic insight- share it with the world. 97. Never stop taking photos. 98. Photography is more than simply taking photos, it is a philosophy of life. 99. Capture the decisive moment. 100. Write your own list.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are. - Paul Caponigro Your turn!-& Its not where you are in life, it's who you have by your side that matters -Start everyday with a smile and get it over with. -But you don't like me, you just like the chase. To be real, it doesn't matter a nyway. -I don't love you, I'm just passing the time. -This is the way the world spins; people want to believe the best, but they're a lways ready to fear the worst. -

-I'm gonna invest my only dollar, and save until I can buy you the world. -& a word's just a word till you mean what you say and love isn't love till you give it away. -And if it makes you smile, then why would you ever let it go? -Everything will work out in the end, and if it's not okay, it's not the end. -. -I used to be love drunk, but now i'm hungover. I'll love you forever, forever i s over. -The ultimate measure of a person is how he treats someone who can do him absolu tely no good -When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it always leads to something el se. -Today is a winding road that's taking me to places that I didn't want to go. -We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun. We all shine on. -How to fight loneliness? Smile all the time :) One of my favorites: Real eyes Realize Real lies. Source(s): i'm quote obsessed. i legit have a book of my favorites. i get them from everywh ere, blogs, other peoples captions, etc... Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~J acques Prvert First, Quotes from Great People Who were not Photographers 2. A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. - Roland Barthes (philosopher) 4. To us, the difference between the photographer as an individual eye and the p hotographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often reg arded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from photography as document . But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, pot entially, everything in the world, from every possible angle. - Susan Sontag, 'On Photography by Susan Sontag'

7. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second , of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression. 8. Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to b e looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which o f course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing). Note: Cartier-Bresson was inspired by this old quote: 9. There is nothing in thi s world that does not have a decisive moment. - Cardinal de Retx, 17th century 11. Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if presented with a young girl burning to death? A: about 1/60 at f5.6 (This one is attributed) 12. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or y ou cannot stand what goes on.

Ansel Adams [famous for B/W American Landscape photos] 13. 16. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. 17. 19. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it. Diane Arbus [famous for B/W photos of deviants/freaks] 21. I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph th em. 22. 23. Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a menta l edge that results in victory. 24. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. 25. Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I ph otographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. Annie Leibovitz [famous celeb/portrait photographer] 26. I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and yo u took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single fr ame. 27. In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be l iterally what's going on, but it's representative. Anonymous Quotes on Photography 28. Amateurs worry about equipment, Professionals worry about time, Masters worr y about light. 29. Owning a DSLR does not make you a photographer. It makes you a DSLR owner. 30. I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it , it just isn t that good. 31. There s a photograph everywhere and it s the photographer s job to find it. 32. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which alread y have an existence. 33. What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera! (Advertising sloga n for Minolta) Garry Winogrand [great street photographer] 34. 35. If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do s omething to shake it up. On Photography as art 36. 37. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caugh t on film is captured forever it remembers little things, long after you have forg otten everything. - Aaron Siskind 38. Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in c ontortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significan t document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple ter

m - selectivity. - Berenice Abbott 39. The word art is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics. - Manuel Alvarez Bravo 40. How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photograph er of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of w hat was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography. - Aaron Scharf 41. 42. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what se parates the snapshot from the photograph. - Matt Hardy On the Work of a Photographer 43. The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that th e amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a cert ain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind o f film stock you use exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the p rofessional the real professional treats the camera with unutterable disdain. Th ey pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know it s the eye and the b rain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that c ounts. - David Hemmings 44. 45. Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eave sdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. - Walker Evans (famous for his subway portraits) 46. Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a ca mera with me at all times I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. - Elliott Erwitt 47. You ve got to push yourself harder. You ve got to start looking for pictures nob ody else could take. You ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. - William Albert Allard 48. Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I m going to take tomorrow. - Imogen Cunningham 49. If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff. - Jim Richardson 52. Our pictures are our footprints. It s the best way to tell people we were here . - Joe McNally 53. If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that s a good picture.

- Eddie Adams 54. At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means o f creative thought and action. I didn t rationalize this, I just felt it intuitive ly and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. - Wynn Bullock 55. Getting the technological foundation to make perfectly exposed photographs w as easy, but amounted to nothing on its own. I simply had to commit myself, to e xpress feelings about what I was undertaking. - Bjorn Rorslett 56. Everyone will take one great picture, I ve done better because I ve taken two. - David Bailey 57. Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integr ity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton 58. Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask how , while others of a more curious nature will ask why . Personally, I have always pre ferred inspiration to information. - Man Ray 59. On Professional Photography Clients don't need photographers, they need photographs. - Bill Westheimer 60. Use right brain when shooting, left brain when looking over contact sheets. - Blake Andrews 61. It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. - Timothy Allen (On editing photos) 62. The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it t ook to make them. - Helmut Newton (On Erotic Photography) 63. Remember that the person you are photographing is 50% of the portrait and yo u are the other 50%. You need the model as much as he or she needs you. If they don t want to help you, it will be a very dull picture. - Lord Patrick Lichfield, British Royal Family Photographer

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r married to someone else. 7) Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak. 8) Everyone has a scheme of getting rich? Which never works until you cheat. 9) If at first you don t succeed?. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried. 10) He who has the gold, makes the golden rules and those who don t have gold foll ow them. 11) Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somew here else at a cheaper rate. 12) When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions. 13) If you have paper, you don t have a pen! If you have a pen, you don t have paper ! if you have both, no one calls. 14) You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming. 15) The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom. PhotoQuotes.com Quotations from the World of Photography 403 ACTIVE USERS 1189 VISITORS TODAY 2368 PAGES TODAY LAST MODIFIED: MARCH-11-2011 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Abadzic, Stanko Abbey, Edward Abbott, Berenice Abell, Sam Ackerman, Diane Acosta, Blanca Acuna, David Adams, Ansel Adams, Claude Adams, Eddie Adams, Edsel Adams, Gilbert Adams, Jeff Adams, Peter Adams, Robert Adams, Scott Adams, Jim Adatto, Kiku Agee, James Rufus Agou, Christophe Aldighieri, April Allard, William Albert Allen, Timothy Aluko, Omolara Andersen, Thomas Folke Anderson, Margaret C.

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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. - Ansel Adams, Photographers on Photographers (Aperture Vol 151) by Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Eikoh Hosoe , ISBN: 0893817732 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own r eactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, thin k and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? - Ansel Adams, The Best of Popu lar Photography by Harvey V. Fondiller , ISBN: 0871650371 , Page: 280 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. - An sel Adams Send the Quote in Email I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - th erefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly ab out it. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appe ar on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good phot ograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being ph otographed in the deepest sense, and is, a true expression of what one feels abo ut life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams, Photographers on Photography : A Critica l Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor) , Page: 29 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the subs tance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations o f the natural world which may have meaning to spectators... - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest se nse, about what is being photographed. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. - Ans el Adams Send the Quote in Email It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environmen t. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exp

loration. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds e ye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm in terested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a cr eative art. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Send the Quote in Email Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an in finite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the sh utter. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships! - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become in adequate, I shall be content with silent. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email 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 i s an instrument of love and revelation. - Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Photographs by Wings Books Send the Quote in Email Those people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on the old dry plates of sixty years ago . . . I am walking in their alleys, st anding in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windo ws. And they in turn seem to be aware of me. - Ansel Adams - from preface of Jac ob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen (1947), Jacob A Riis : Photographer & Citizen by Alexander, Sr. Alland This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much tim e and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a s uperficial image often leads to creative disaster. - Ansel Adams - "A Personal C redo," in American Annual of Photography, vol. 58 (1944; repr. in Photographers on Photography, ed. By Nathan Lyons, 1966), Photographers on Photography : A Cri

tical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor) This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email I respect everything in change and the solomn beauty of life and death. I believ e man will obtain freedom of spirit of society, and therefore while man amidst t he emence beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self perfe ction and must observe and represent his world with full confidence. I believe p hotography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the came ra does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! - Ansel Adams, Ansel Ada ms: Photographs by Wings Books Send the Quote in Email Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the express ive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can sur ely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of n atural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. - Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Photog raphs by Wings Books Send the Quote in Email In some [photographs] the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the su bstance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things....It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observation s of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators... - Ansel Adams, An sel Adams: Photographs by Wings Books Send the Quote in Email There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond hi story, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the dep ths of our perceptive spirit. - Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Photographs by Wings B ooks Send the Quote in Email The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photog raphy are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake I am deeply concerned with t hese manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convi ctions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must cont ain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great resp ect. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. - Ansel Adams - He wrote this in 1932 Send the Quote in Email The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of quest ionable value... - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, m eters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender! - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email

...A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in it's entirety. . . I believe in photography as o ne means of achieving an ultimate happiness and faith. The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing t hings that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet. - Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams : An Auto biography by Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (Contributor) , ISBN: 0821222414 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quie t realisation that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity th at is not necessarily inhuman. My private glimpses of some ideal reality create a lasting mood that that has of ten been recalled in some of my photographs. . . the subtle change of light acro ss a waterfall moved me as did a singular vista of a far-off mountain under a le aden sky. Others might well have not responded at all. Deep resonances of spirit exist, giving us glimpses of a reality far beyond our general appreciation, and knowledge. . . .no matter how many stars we see in a clear mountain sky, we now know that they are but a minuscule fragment of the total population of suns and planets in the billions of galaxies out there in the incomprehensible void. The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are th e creative works of the human spirit. I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems t o fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confide nce in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not t aken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongne ss of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increas ingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence. - Ansel Adam s, Ansel Adams : An Autobiography by Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (Contribut or) , ISBN: 0821222414 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and reco rd the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique, - these, too, are not enough . Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. Art, said Alfred St ieglitz, is the affirmation of life. And life, or its eternal evidence is everyw here. Some photographers take reality as the sculptors take wood and stone and u pon it impose the dominations of their own thought and spirit. Others come befor e reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and el evation. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can be contained in words. - Ansel Adams, Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Ly ons (Editor) , Page: 32 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email A photograph is not an accident Send the Quote in Email it is a concept. - Ansel Adams

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always co nsistent, where the images slide before ones eyes in a continual cascade of form

and meaning. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the "moment" and the immedi ate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them onl y by continued practice and total dedication to the medium. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email An art is definable only in its own terms; it is as difficult to write about pho tography as it is about music, especially from a personal viewpoint. I feel that as one grows older his credo becomes simpler and more direct. Penetrating the s moke screens of equipment and techniques, glamor, ideology, and simple achieveme ntmotive, the art of photography appears as strong and vital and purposeful as a ny other creative medium, and stands cleanly on its own feet. We are confronted today with a dichotomy; as our equipment and materials constantly grow in scope and quality the creative and technical standards appear to be diminishing; there is a near-cult of photographers who seem to intentionally avoid the beautiful a nd precise image, concentrating only on subject and obvious function. My persona l reaction to this attitude is a determination to go as far in the opposite dire ction as possible. I believe in the most beautiful and appropriate prints, and t he most clarifying and revealing approach of mind, heart, and craft. I believe t hat firm objectives in this directin can fulfill the promis of photography as on e of the great visual arts. However, we must always be logical in our critical e stimates; most of photography is not intended as art and should ot be judges as such. But if art is intended, compromise must not be tolerated. - Ansel Adams, T he Best of Popular Photography by Harvey V. Fondiller , ISBN: 0871650371 , Page: 92-93 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email 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. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email A photograph is an instrument of love and revelation that must see beneath the s urfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things . - Ansel Adams, 150 Years of Photography , ISBN: 6301264258 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. - Ansel Adams, Master Photographers The World s Great Photographers on their Art and Technique , Page: 9 Send the Quote in Email Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify t he statement of the photographer's concept. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of l ife. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Ask yourself, "Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I lea rning?" Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. How high your awa reness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography

can teach you to improve your awareness level. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to crea tive disaster. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. - Ansel Adam s Send the Quote in Email Stieglitz would never say that certain objects of the world were more or less be autiful than others-telegraph poles, for instance, compared with oak trees. He w ould accept them for what they are, and use the most appropriate objects to expr ess his thoughts and convey his vision. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond hi story, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the dep ths of our perceptive spirit. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email We don't make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photograph y all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destini es and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of or iginality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. - Ansel A dams Send the Quote in Email Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own r eactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, thin k and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performa nce. Each performance differs in subtle ways. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email 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, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonde r in a vast edifice of stone and space. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print. - Ansel Adams

Send the Quote in Email Send the Quote in Email Tags: looking The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the perfor mance. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Tags: negative print My wife - she could help me get the negs out! - Ansel Adams - On being asked whi ch to save first from a burning house - the wife or the negatives... Send the Quote in Email Tags: funny A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest se nse, about what is being photographed. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Tags: photograph I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the s earch for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. - Ansel A dams Ansel Adams in 1930 had been training to become a concert pianist while consider ing a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that "the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny." His mother and aunt both pleaded, "Do not give up the piano! The camera cannot express the human soul!" To which Adams replied, "The camera cannot, but the photographer c an." - Ansel Adams - in "Black & White Magazine for Collector of Fine Photograph y" October 2000, Page: 76 Notebook. No photographer should be without one! - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Tags: notebook photographer ...with most of my photographs, the subject appears as a found object, something discovered, not arranged by me. I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as co nventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction. - Ans el Adams Send the Quote in Email (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 another plan e of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. - Ansel Adams - in a letter to Ce dric Wright Send the Quote in Email It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimatio n of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the posit

ive... it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself. - Ansel Adams, Ansel Adam s : An Autobiography by Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (Contributor) , ISBN: 0 821222414 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email Photography is but one phase of the potential of human expression; all art is th e expression of one and the same thing the relation of the spirit of man to the spi rit of other men and to the world. - Ansel Adams - DANGER SIGNALS, PSA Journal, Vol. 14, November 1948; p. 575. Send the Quote in Email

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to tha t accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. - Ansel Adams, The pict ure history of photography: From the earliest beginnings to the present day by P eter Pollack , ISBN: 0500271011 , Page: 105 This book is available from Amazon.com Send the Quote in Email Tags: music - [Popular Photography 1/1980, p. 159, Send the Quote in Email Proof Sheet

A photograph is not an accident it is a concept. It exists at, or before, the mome nt of exposure of the negative. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friend s can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something str ongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The firs t experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trus ting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take ar e not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. - Ansel Adams Send the Quote in Email I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever techn ological innovations may develop. - Ansel Adams - 1983 Send the Quote in Email Tags: future Send the Quote in Email I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elder ly person. I've learned.... That when you're in love, it shows.

I've learned.... That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day. I've learned.... That being kind is more important than being right. I've learned.... That you should never say no to a gift from a child. I've learned.... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the streng th to help him in some other way. I've learned.... That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyo ne needs a friend to act goofy with. I've learned.... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. I've learned.... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nig hts when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. I've learned.... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. I've learned.... That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask fo r. I've learned.... That money doesn't buy class. I've learned.... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so specta cular. I've learned... That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appr eciated and loved. I've learned.... That the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can? The Wheel of Personal Success I've learned.... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letti ng that person continue to hurt you. I've learned.... That love, not time, heals all wounds. I've learned.... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am. I've learned.... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile. Your People Skills 360 I've learned.... That there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks. I've learned.... That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

I've learned.... That life is tough, but I'm tougher. I've learned.... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones y ou miss. I've learned.... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. I've learned.... That I wish I could have told my Dad that I love him one more t ime before he passed away. I've learned.... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because to morrow he may have to eat them. I've learned.... That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. I've learned.... That I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do abou t it. I've learned.... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger i n his little fist, that you're hooked for life. I've learned.... That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. Be Different and Make a Difference! I've learned ... That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life threatening situation. I've learned.... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get d one.

POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHERS! Ansel Adams Elliott Erwitt Mary Ellen Mark Edward Weston Garry Winogrand Sebastiao Salgado Irving Penn Dorothea Lange David Lachapelle

1. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. 2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. 3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. 4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). 5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Di nner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..

6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions North, East , West and South. . 7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'. 8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's bus iness. 9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting t o see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest. 10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt servi ce from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was w ritten 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips. 11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later. 12. Coca-Cola was originally green. 13. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(especially women!) 14. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! 15.. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 16. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongu e twister in the English language. . 17. The cigarette lighter was invented before the matchbox!!.

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thi ng in life!! --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. --Oscar Wilde ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. --Scottish Proverb

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. --Sam Kinison ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H. L. Mencken ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why. When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home always. --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her, "How about the kitchen?" --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the estimate. --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off. --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in." --Anonymous

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses to get to married. He says "the wedding rings look like minature handcuffs... .." --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first? The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u let him in! --Anonymous ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir, I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain in is more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then replied "My wife's first husband." ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband leaned over, made a wish and threw in a coin . The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned over too much, fell into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned for a while but then smiled "It really works ! "