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Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm
Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point is viewed by nearly every visitor to Yosemite National Park and photographed by the many visitors and locals who never tire of the scene. Available as a Modern Replica (digitally-mastered prints made from an original photograph to capture the look, feel, and luster that Ansel intended) in sizes up to 42 x 56 inches, with matting and framing options available. Prices start at $149. Also available as part of the Grand Landscapes Set. Click on any image above to see it in our shop.
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El Capitan
Using a Kodak #1 Box Brownie, Ansel Adams offered an early hint at the visualization that would later become his hallmark, framing the pale granite face with leafy trees in the foreground to downplay the overwhelming size of El Capitan. After that early photograph, he returned to El Capitan over and again photographing it in every time, season, and light he could. Click on any image above to see it in our shop.
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Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Point
On four successive mornings, Adams tried to take this photograph from the east side of the Sierra. On the fifth day it was still dark and bitterly cold when he set up his camera on the new platform on top of his car and retreated to the warm interior. As dawn drew near, he returned to the camera to await the sun’s first rays on the meadow. “I finally encountered the bright, glistening sunrise with light clouds streaming from the southeast and casting swift-moving shadows on the meadow and dark rolling hills.” At the last possible moment, the horse turn to offer a profile view. Many years later he wrote “Sometimes I think I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter!” Available as a Modern Replica (digitally-mastered prints made from an original photograph to capture the look, feel, and luster that Ansel intended) in sizes up to 42 x 56 inches, with matting and framing options available. Prices start at $149. Also available as part of our High Sierra Set.
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Moon and Half Dome
Moon and Half Dome is a testament to the artistic refinement and confidence that comes with age. Here, it shows his outlook on photography in its finest and purest light, where only the elements he wished to highlight are visible – just the moon, the rock face, and the artist’s intent. Likewise, it is a testament to the energy and artistic vigor that Ansel was capable of in his later years – and to the enduring, timeless quality of Yosemite National Park’s natural beauty. This image remains an iconic reminder of Ansel’s gift to all who love nature, and to the art of photography. Click on any image above to see it in our shop.
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Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome 1927 is one of Adams’ finest works and a lasting and iconic depiction of one of the most unique spots in the American Wilderness. Its technical excellence and artistic mastery would soon launch Adams’ career as one of the finest commercial and fine-art photographers of the 20th century. Click on any image above to see it in our shop.
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Vernal Fall
Ansel Adams made this image around 1948 with a 4″ x 5″ view camera. The hike up the Mist Trail to Vernal Fall is short, accessible, and heavily trafficked. John Muir, in his book “The Yosemite,” described the fall: “The Vernal, about a mile below the Nevada, is 400 feet high, a staid, orderly, graceful, easy-going fall, proper and exact in every movement and gesture …it is a favorite with most visitors, doubtless because it is more accessible than any other, more closely approached and better seen and heard. A good stairway ascends the cliff beside it and the level plateau at the head enables one to saunter safely along the edge of the river as it comes from Emerald Pool and to watch its waters, calmly bending over the brow of the precipice, in a sheet eighty feet wide, changing in color from green to purplish gray and white until dashed on a boulder talus.” The Mist Trail is notoriously wet — standing in the rain can be drier. Adams would have faced challenges keeping his equipment dry while capturing this familiar icon of Yosemite .
“Vernal Fall” appeared “Portfolio IV, What Majestic Word,” published by the Sierra Club in 1963 and Classic Images, the book based on the Museum Set Collection, a retrospective portfolio of what Adams considered his strongest work. It has also been published in Yosemite and the Range of Light (out of print), Yosemite, and the Portfolios of Ansel Adams.
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Half Dome, Merced River, Winter
Ansel Adams made this image in 1938 with an 8″ x 10” view camera from the Old Sentinel Bridge near the Yosemite Chapel. Though the old bridge was replaced in 2000, the new Sentinel Bridge remains one the best viewpoints in Yosemite Valley and a popular spot for photographers, in large part because of Adams ‘ photographs from this location. Ansel Adams made many prints of this image, including a mammoth 38′ x 60’ mural that hung above the fireplace of Best’s Studio in Yosemite Valley for many years. “Half Dome, Merced River, Winter” appears in Yosemite and the Range of Light (out of print), Yosemite, “Yosemite and the High Sierra” and “Classic Images,” the book based on the Museum Set Collection, a retrospective portfolio of what Adams considered his strongest work.
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Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley
Ansel Adams made this image with an 8″ x 10″ view camera in 1945. This view from Inspiration Point is familiar to visitors as it’s often their first glimpse of Yosemite Valley after entering the National Park. Over the years, Adams took countless photographs from Inspiration Point to capture the changing moods of the valley in different seasons, times of day, and atmospheric conditions, such as the looming thunderstorm bearing down on the valley in this image. Inspiration Point was also the starting point of Ansel Adams’ lifelong photographic relationship with Yosemite. On his first visit to Yosemite in 1916, he took a photograph from this spot with a Kodak #1 Box Brownie and sent it to his aunt, Mary Bray, who had been his teacher before he began formal schooling. “Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley“ appears in “Yosemite and the High Sierra.”
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Dogwood Blossoms
Ansel Adams made this image, Dogwood Blossoms, with a 5″ x 7″ view camera in 1938, the year he trekked through the high sierra with Edward Weston. Depending on the year, dogwoods typically peak during April or May in Yosemite, evoking bursts of starlight against the bare forest backdrop. This dramatic contrast prompted Adams to compose one of his only still-life images. To capture the 12 blossoms in this spectacular spray of dogwoods, he placed them atop a nearby rock covered with pine needles and lichen. Click on any image above to see it in our shop.
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Aspens, Northern New Mexico (H)
While returning from an unsuccessful trip to Canyon de Chelly in search of a color photograph for Kodak, Adams happened upon this grove of aspens. “We were in the shadow of the mountains, ” Adams wrote, “the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow….I made the horizontal picture first, the moved to the left and made the vertical image at about the same subject distance. The few yellow leaves seen in the vertical image were not as bright as those in the horizontal version….The majority of viewers of the horizontal image think it was a sunlit scene. When I explain that it is represented diffused lighting from the sky and also reflected light from the distant clouds, some rejoin ‘Then why does it look the way it does?’ Such questions remind me that many viewers expect a photograph to be a the literal simulation of reality.”
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