Ansel Adams started with with a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie. Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter,” remarked Ansel Adams. Like many, Adams started with just humble means, a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him, long before he would gain notoriety for his black-and-white photographs that inspired the designation of California’s Yosemite National Park in 1940. Whether the photograph is captured by a practiced professional or


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