You Don't Take A Photograph, You Make

At One With The Power Of The American Landscape, And Renowned For The Patient Skill And Timeless Beauty Of His Work, Photographer Ansel Adams Has Been Visionary In His Efforts To Preserve This Country's Wild And Scenic Areas, Both In Film And On Earth. Drawn To The Beauty Of Nature's Monuments, He Is Regarded By Environmentalists As A Monument Himself, And By Photographers As A National Institution. It Is Through His Foresight And Fortitude That So Much Of America Has Been Saved For Future Americans.

Art Is Both The Taking And Giving Of Beauty; The Turning Out To The Light The Inner Folds Of The Awareness Of The Spirit. It Is The Recreation On Another Plane Of The Realities Of The World; The Tragic And Wonderful Realities Of Earth And Men, And Of All The Inter-relations Of These.

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.

To Visualize An Image (in Whole Or In Part) Is To See Clearly In The Mind Prior To Exposure, A Continuous Projection From Composing The Image Through The Final Print.

We All Move On The Fringes Of Eternity And Are Sometimes Granted Vistas Through Fabric Of Illusion.