Where the magic happened — Ansel Adams

Continuing from above, Art and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit with Jeanne and Michael Adams, who graciously showed us their home, replete with works from the master, Ansel Adams, some of which were larger than any Adams prints I had previously seen.

Michael Adams showed us the darkroom used by Ansel, including the still functioning horizontally-mounted enlarged shown below. The faint darkroom smell still lingered, a trip back to the 1980's when I used to run the Stanford Photo Club darkroom, where I developed skin irritation from fixer—I loved watching latent images emerge, but I’ll pass on the chemicals!

Michael Adams shows Ansel’s horizontally-mounted enlarger
(infrared)