Blue Orchid Photography's photostream

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. -Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silent. -Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. -Ansel Adams

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 is an instrument of love and revelation. -Ansel Adams

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

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

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

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. -Ansel Adams

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

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. -Peter Adams

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. -Robert Adams

A picture is worth a thousand words. -Anonymous

A photograph can be as striking and as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem. -Anonymous

The ultimate photgraphic camera will imprint a scene directly into a person's memory. -Anonymous

It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera. -Anonymous

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. -Anonymous

When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject. -Anonymous

The type of photographs you make, the subjects you single out, reveal the person inside of you. How close you get to your subjects reveals how close you want to get. -Anonymous

My camera has helped to give me insight to truth. It has helped me to understand that change is wonderful and beneficial. -Anonymous

Pictures always should have a special story behind it or a special meaning to the photographer. -Anonymous

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don''t have the film. -Anonymous

"Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others" -Anonymous

Photographs don’t lie, people do. -Anonymous

Let your words be few, and your exposures many. -Anonymous

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. -Anonymous

Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop. -Anonymous

Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. -Peter Adams

One...Two...Three...Photography! -Anonymous