Today is the anniversary of the death of Ansel Adams, the David Attenborough of Photography.......I've written to Anthony Hopkins about his potentially 'playing' Ansel in a not as yet imagined biographical film...... In my teens, as an aspiring photographer, I purchased Adam's books on Zone Theory...."The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"....and journeyed to NYC to stand before his beautiful photographs at The Light Gallery......my hyper-vigilance, however, brought me to notice the 'spot toning' that the artist had done on just about all his photographs!.....He wasn't 'PERFECT'!.....There was Hope for me, who had little confidence, then.... On my return, I immediately purchased, via a Photographic Supplies catalog, three vials of spot toner, a bottle of selenium bromide paper toner and a cheap Calumet view camera and tripod......
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