Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 "Geoff Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >Alan, I'm totally baffled by that statement. >Your whole universe is about technical excellence is it not? Do you mean >you >aren't interested in landscape photography? HCB made a similar statement >about Ansel Adams. Perhaps you worship at that church? I've just been to >the >Ansel Adams gallery in Yosemite and more importantly some of the places >where he created magical photographs. I can't think of anything more >inspiring or uplifting for me. I have NEVER been more emotional as a >photographer than to see valley view with swirling snow clouds around the >mountains. =========================================================== Baffled? Don't you find you like the work of certain photographers and not others? I'm interested in landscape photographs that I like. Tonight I brought out my copy of "The Portfolios of Ansel Adams" NYGS, 1977, and there are only four pictures in it that I'd like to look at repeatedly: Roots 1948, Oak Tree, Snow Storm 1948, Trees and Snow 1933, and Winter Storm (Yosemite) 1944. This last one IS inspiring, and I would be impressed with Yosemite too, I think (I've never been there). I guess my taste runs more toward urban photography. My favorite photographers are Elliott Erwitt, Gene Smith, Tony Ray-Jones, Andre Kertesz, Josef Sudek, David Plowden, and yes, HCB. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/