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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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