Naturally, it can't be that simple.
As Demaray points out, Adams and his wife run a photography studio in Yosemite National Park ("Best Studios"). The permit for that studio's operation in Yosemite contains a prohibition against government employees sharing in either the permit or its benefits.
Does this mean that Adams will be required to give up his valuable Yosemite permit? No. Demaray suggests that the Secretary of the Interior (the same gentleman who essentially hired Adams) "probably could" enact a waiver of the policy that would have kept Adams from being both a government employee and a permit-holder.
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. "Woody's" application was on a Form 375.
, while not quite so quick as e-mail, would have beaten the last letter to Adams, even if it was sent by air mail.
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, to movie buffs), but today's entry is Ansel Adams' "golden ticket" to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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(allowing more or less light to various regions of the original photographic paper during the printing process) or (in our digital world) a bit of 
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. The book chronicles Ansel Adams' spiritual journey and its relationship to his photography, which, I'll admit, is something I hadn't been thinking about, prior to picking up this text.
, "By 1941 a number of painters had already been commissioned to paint murals on the walls of the new Interior Department building; no photographers were originally included in the Mural Project (as the undertaking was called) because few people then judged photography to be on a par with painting" (p. 7).
, Adams describes the genesis of his project as follows: First, Secretary Ickes invited him to photograph the national parks for Interior. Second, Ickes would review his pictures. Third, Ickes and Adams would jointly decide which images would be enlarged as murals. Fourth, "ownership of the negatives was to remain with [Adams], and there would be no restrictions on the future prints I could make from them."
