Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, known for his stunning black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West. He was also a passionate advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas and the use of photography as a tool for environmental activism.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.