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Inspired by Ansel Adams?

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Ansel Adams carried 60 pounds of photographic equipment into the wilderness, spent hours photographing one image, and then many more hours processing the photographs, to achieve his stunning images of Yosemite National Park.

Seventy Ansel Adams’ images Classic Images: Photography by Ansel Adams are on display at the Lake County Discovery Museum.

Automatic cameras have made photography a pastime for the masses. The Camera + app even has an Ansel Adams setting.

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While we probably won’t achieve the mastery of an Ansel Adams image with our point-and-shoot cameras, we can be inspired to emulate the artistic genius.

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