Observations – Page 5 – Explorations In Photography

The Influence of Ansel Adams

What Ansel Adams valued in his photos of the wilderness, he said, was “a mystique: a valid, intangible, non-materialistic experience.”

With this image I was consciously striving for a photograph that resembled something my talented younger brother would have painted.

This image is useful in the depiction of what camera enthusiasts refer to as bokeh – the facility to blur the background.

The angle in this image, from the extreme left side, allowed the capture of all this partial detail, revealing a sense of depth.

My love affair with film photography began in 1979 when I purchased a film camera: the Pentax ME Super, which was a semi-automatic model.