This has been a very successful event for the last three seasons, and the Board decided to offer it again, providing an opportunity for those who missed previous years to make it this season.  This year's tour will feature the Ansel Adams photography exhibit, so those who attended before may want to do it again.  The Dessert reception will be held after the tour in the Arcadia Farms Cafe; we will have a private room and a choice of delicious desserts.  

Ansel Adams will offer new insights into the photographer’s greatest works, by bringing the vast holdings of the Center for Creative Photography’s Ansel Adams Archive to light. The exhibition – featuring 120 photographs and dozens of archival documents including video footage, original correspondence, photographic equipment, proof prints, alternate views, negatives, and portraits of the photographer – allows for a richer understanding of Adams’s beloved photographs. Curator Rebecca Senf is an Adams scholar who has worked with the collection for over five years and wrote her doctoral dissertation on Adams’s early work. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, was co-founded by Ansel Adams and then University President, John P. Schaefer, in 1975, and houses the photographer’s archive.

The exhibition is organized around six aspects of Adams’s career – a time, a place, a medium, a subject, a theme, and a role.

Richard Nilsen, The Arizona Republic: "The bottom line is that this show will satisfy both the fans who want, once again, to see the familiar pictures, but also those who have been through dozens of Adams shows and wish to see something more, to learn something out of the ordinary about this extraordinary man."