Didn’t he have that Cadillac by the end?Originally Posted by Vaughn
By all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.
Didn’t he have that Cadillac by the end?By all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.
I know what you mean vaughnBy all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.
years ago I had a conversation with jerry katz, the chemist who did all the data and whatnot for the photo lab index .. and he was at some PLI/Morgan+Lester shindig and ansel adams was there. Adams was extremely interested in the photographs he (katz )put on the wall ... from what he told me it was a blow up ( 16x20 ) tight grain, sweet tonality et C. and mr adams asked if it was made with a LF negative, Mr katz told him it was 8mm, developed in some sort of monobath he invented ... it blew mr Adam's mind .. he was open minded, and loved making photographs any way he could and saw a bright future. land yacht .. you aren't kidding !
My Grammar School graduating class motto was, "Push, Pull, or Get out of the way". Simpler days then. If you wanted to talk to someone, you walked, bicycled, or took a horse. No phones there yet except at the General Store (a mahogany box with a crank handle), and darn little TV reception either.
I imagine Ansel would vomit if he saw what is being done with digital photography today. Be careful what you wish for.
He’d be sickened because people are being creative using photography ? I don’t get it ..
Back to OP’s topic…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWywb9...dWx5IHRhbGs%3D
Yes, and an International Travel-all in there for awhile.
And a burro, too (but no photos of AA up on a pack-top roof rack). Personally, I packed mules for ten years while doing trail work and never fully trusted them to haul my 4x5 out into the wilderness (not a lot of pushing or pulling those beasts). There just wasn't time and/or energy to get too creative...if there was light, there was something that needed to be done. Except for a few times I backpacked the camera in on my days off, I saved photography for the other 6 months of the year up in the redwoods and occasional trips to the SW in my '71 VW Bug.
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
for a second there I thought that was the pepto bismol ad
The trouble with mules is that they can be smarter than people; and the saying, "stubborn as mule" didn't come out of nowhere. They also know how to lay down in the middle of creeks to cool off, along with the gear atop them. AA stopped backpacking when he was just 32 and resorted to mules. Many of his high country pictures were taken on brief breaks when leading huge mule and horse train convoys of Sierra Clubbers along the trails. More often these days, llamas are preferred instead by photographers; but they get spooked more easily. I still prefer my own two feet.
I sure hope we can get to 15 pages on this topic
The push and pull Mini...
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