Ansel Adams

A few Ansel Adams photographs that inspire me:

And some quotes by him that I found and really like a lot:

• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
• A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
• There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept
• To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
• 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.
• You don't take a photograph, you make it.