The great American landscape photographer of the 20th century was Ansel Adams. His innovations with black and white film came to be known as Photographic Modernism, the aim of which was to produce an image that transcended pictorial realism and approached the creation of art. He was soundly criticized in some quarters for not including humans in his pictures. That was fine with him. What he valued in his photos of the wilderness, he said, was “a mystique: a valid, intangible, non-materialistic experience.”
His work and his words inspired me to take this photo.
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” – Ansel Adams
Location: Squamish, British Columbia
Date: July, 1989
Source: Pentax ME Super with ASA 100 Black and White film
