Inspired by a True Master

What audacity to claim that “Ansel Adams is America’s most over-appreciated photographer” (“Graduation Dress,” Photo Synthesis, by Colin Westerbeck, Nov. 12). Each time I carefully view even a bad reproduction of one of Adams’ intense images, I see something deeply moving and inspiring. And I realize that even the most advanced modern photography and photographers cannot begin to approach the technical perfection he achieved.

We are to admire Adams’ work forever rather than duplicate it.

Carl Grant

Palm Springs