ansel adams- Madrone Bark 1932

I'll admit when I first saw Ansel Adam's photgraphs all i wanted to do was shoot amazing nature photos, but then i realised he a pro and has assistents and traveled to national parks with a 4x5 camera. None the less Ansel Adams will always be one of the great landscape photographers even when his images are abstrat. I liked this phot of bark because of the texture and because it is unrecognizable. The bark looks papery and easily tearable. The deep shadows in contrast to the highlighted bark makes this striking. The horizontal shapes interfering with the vertical bark makes the composition less ordinary and more with the light coming from that direction it makes my look right to left as if it is pointint to something.



#45 pg 53, Ansel Adams.