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Just before leaving for two years of graduate piano study at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, I visited Yosemite National Park for the first time.

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This was my first real camping trip—and it was a revelation. In the tiny practice rooms at Eastman, I kept dreaming of the wide-open spaces of the Sierra. George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman School of Music, also founded a company named Kodak, which was headquartered in Rochester.

Thus, the public library there had a superb photography section. This was where I searched for Yosemite books, and discovered Ansel Adams. Adams himself trained as a pianist, and later turned to photography.

Charles cramer photographs biography of william shakespeare

I had spent many hours in my father's darkroom, and enjoyed making “happy-snap” prints of friends. But I never realized that photography could also be an art form....

Another revelation was a trip a few years later to the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

With a pair of white gloves, one was