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Adams wrote of the process of taking this photograph: \"I drove my station wagon to a place I had often visited.  Never before had the conditions been right for me at this location, but this time there was a glorious storm going on in the mountains\" (See <i>Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs</i>, p. 68).  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Mountain configurations blend with and relate to those of the clouds.  Paul Strand said to me at Taos, at my meeting with him in 1930 that, was of such importance to my photography: 'There is a certain valid moment for every cloud'.\"\r\n- Ansel Adams","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"\"When the clouds and storms appear the skies and the cloud-shadows on the mountain bring everything to life; shapes and planes appear that were hitherto unseen. Mountain configurations blend with and relate to those of the clouds. 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