for al'thor

"Moonrise, Hernandez" is my favorite, or just about anything he shot at Yosemite.

mine too. when I was an aspiring artist, I'd draw everything this guy shot. I could never capture the light the way he did. thanks rick!

I'm pretty lucky to live a couple hours away from Yosemite Valley.

Ansel captured sopmething that cannot be duplicated ever.

uh... what light?

mydsooner

it's hard to appreciate the different appearances of light from this second generation picture.

try

http://www.artfinale.com/adams.html 

IF you know much about the artist, the mastery is in the technique of developing the print. A lot of dark room time was spent in the production of his final prints, adding chemicals in certain areas to highlight a cliff face or a stand of trees. It's not what he actually saw through the lens of his camera but the image he saw in the art he created in his darkroom. IF you've ever seen a presentation of his actual prints, stand close to them and you can see where he may have over developed a protion of a print to make a particular item stand out, or create a greater contrast around an item to halo it into prominence. Not that the images of Yosemite aren't striking enough, his mastery of his art enhanced the natural beauty of the image to create an almost ethereal beauty. As you might guess, I really love his work too, and from him I learned a photograph is much more than the image you see through the view finder when you snap the shutter. The art of photography is in the manipulation of the visual image during the development of the final piece, as with all visual art, no matter the media.

Digital cannot duplicate any of this.

"Down with digital! Silver will never die!"

Doug

Even the valley had changed over the years. Not only the trees, but the valley itself. You realize looking at his pictures and comparing them to the valley now, there are subtle and not so subtle changes in the landscape.