Reads photographic literature, including complete sets of the photographic journals Camera Work and Aperture, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Myron Wood, a professional photographer with a deep commitment to documenting Colorado, teaches Adams photographic technique.

Awarded a Ph.D. in English by the University of Southern California. Buys a 4x5 inch view camera and returns to Colorado, where he photographs Hispanic cemeteries along the southern Colorado border, as well as scenes on the eastern Colorado prairie. The Plains Late Hispanic Settlement

Begins teaching part-time in order to photograph more. His pictures are often rejected for publication and exhibition, and are, to his discouragement, returned destroyed as well.