Ansel Adams and Yosemite

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Louise Story writes an excellent article in New York Times, going back to the Yosemite of Ansel Adam's days and talking about Adam's perspectives of the Park.

Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 when he was 14 years old. On that trip, he hopped up on a tree stump to take a photo of Half Dome, then stumbled, headfirst, and accidentally pushed the shutter release. The upside-down image remained one of Adams’s favorites, he wrote in his autobiography.

Yosemite is one of my favourite places on earth, and what I regret greatly is not being able to spend any more than just a weekend in the park. Here is a picture, shot using a disposable point and shoot film camera in the days when digital SLRs were far behind film.