I don't take a lot of black and white photos, but when I do, I like to steal location ideas from Ansel Adams.
A friend and I visited the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, at Manzanar, California, a couple of years ago and walked around in the same area where Ansel Adams had created a famous photo of Mt. Williamson in 1944. I didn't find those same rocks he photographed, but amazingly the clouds were very similar and filtered the light into rays just like in his image from so many decades ago. Call this a "study", if you will; it's my homage to the great master landscape artist who popularized the dodging and burning techniques that we still use today.
This area is directly behind the Japanese internment camp from WWII (and that's is a whole other story).
Remarkable, love the way you fix in the lightrays
Thank you! :D
Wow man! One of your best pieces of work I’ve seen so far. This image is epic in every sense of the word 👌
Oh, great! Glad you think so! It's not my usual style but I kinda like it. :)
Before I even read the title, I was going to comment how it looked like an Ansel Adams. Nice job, duder.
Nice dude, that's cool to hear. thank you!
I was inspired by your pictures.
Aw, thanks! :D
@derekkind Great photography :)
Thank you! :)
Love the focus in this shot, great foreground to background interplay. Nice work Derek :)
Thank you, Will, I appreciate it! :)
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Noice! :D
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Hey, thank you @adrianobalan! :D
u welcome @derekkind
Wow, you copied him very well :)
~Ansel Adams
Thank you. :)
This is amazing, all the light and shade is so beautiful!
Thanks, @vtravels! :D