Being a San Francisco Bay Area resident, I’m aware of the work of Chronicle/SFGate photographer Frederic Larson, especially his “Mystical Photography” photoblog that features daily photographs from around the Bay. (He does get around the Bay Area, and often before the rest of us are even up in the morning!)
But I just have to wonder about today’s image and its title. That’s all I’ll say. Well, except for, “groan….”
For our first episode of PhotoCycle we visit Yosemite Valley with Ansel’s son Michael Adams. Michael tells us about Ansel’s process, workflow and his joy of being a photographer. In rare unreleased footage, we hear directly from Ansel Adams about how to make a great photograph – advice that you can apply to improve your own work.
Or so said Henri Cartier-Bresson in a Newsweek Interview: Man of the Moment. It is interesting to read him (in rather curmudgeonly fashion, though that is forgivable in his case) dismiss photography as an endeavor.
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