This afternoon, Steve and I walked to the Phoenix Art Museum to view the "Modern by Nature" exhibit of Ansel Adams' early works. Lots of close-ups, radical croppings, and extreme camera angles. He definitely had not yet developed, nor perfected, his zone philosophy of photograpy. It was, however, an interesting show (brought to us courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, which, coincidentally, Adams co-founded).