I have been reading this Ansel Adams classic at a leisurely pace and have been enjoying it greatly. He uses the word "make" as opposed to "take" for the photographs he creates. And truly, what wonderful photographs he makes.

From the chapter on "Rose and Driftwood":

Most of my photographs made before 1930 were of distant grandeurs. But as I learned the inherent propperties of camera, lens, filters and exposure, I also gained the freedom to see with more sensitive eyes the full landscape of our environment, a landscape that included scissors and thread, grains of sand, leaf details, the human face and a single rose.

I am begining to see this difference in 'making' pictures, I am only begining to make mine, though I have 'taken' many.