LEA -THE BEST PICTURES

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui Keivom

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck

A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet

You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~Author Unknown

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~John Berger

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ~Duane Michals

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams