I am pleased to see that a new Luminous Landscape RSS feed includes posts from their What’s New page.
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Diablo Valley College is using a photo of mine taken on a 2004 Sierra Nevada pack trip that passed through the Rae Lakes area. The scene shows a peak called Painted Lady with a bit of one of the Rae Lakes in the foreground.

My backpacking buddy Owen Lee is a member of the music faculty at DVC and the conductor of one of the groups featured at this performance – and he was on the trip with me when the photo was taken.

As a photographer, one can have mixed feelings about the use of a photo as background behind text on a poster, but I think it works in this case.

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New York Times:

Records have continued to be broken steadily. But until last year, when a contemporary photograph by Richard Prince sold for $1.2 million at Christie’s, no single print had ever broken the six-figure barrier at auction. So when Sotheby’s announced this week that “The Pond ˜ Moonlight,” a platinum print by Edward Steichen owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had sold for almost $3 million to an anonymous buyer, it was as if continents had shifted in the photography world.

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From SFGate: Parcels near 2 of his homes about to be sold

A coalition of neighbors who live in the sprawling homes that surround the land, along with environmentalists and Adams admirers has formed in hopes of preserving the property and one day turning it into the Ansel Adams Grove — a place where visitors could stroll, see the homes, be surrounded by the nature that inspired Adams and visit a monument that pays tribute to the native San Franciscan who many have no idea ever stepped foot in the city.

“Nobody knows he’s from San Francisco,” said Tom McAfee, a neighbor who is leading the charge to have the land preserved as open space. “There’s no memorial anywhere. There’s no designation … most people figure he was probably born in Yosemite or New Mexico.”

But their dream to dedicate the land to Adams may be just that.

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