PAULBACH
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Ansel Adams
For casual shots the smaller the camera the better. I like one that fits in the cell phone pocket of my riding jacket. I carry the cell phone elsewhere and turn it out once or twice a day.
The best pictures always seem to be the ones you never stop and take - be patient with yourself.
Always carry your camera with you - no big deal now. One of the best photographers or the 20th century, Ansel Adams, always carried his camera one of the reasons he got so many memorial pictures; that plus his ability and eye. The story that goes with the above picture may be urban legend but it does illustrate the point.
Adams was driving in the Southwest and supposedly was listening to a fireside chat by FDR. He pulled over to listen carefully and found the above vista in front on him. He set up his camera and shot the picture. I wonder if the story is true since FDR gave his fireside chats in the evening. If Adams took this moon light picture in the evening the time differential would have put the fireside chat around 10 or 11 in Washington. However the basic concept is sound - always carry a camera with you.
Ansel Adams cameras were huge compared to today's digital wonders and somehow he managed to always have a camera with him.