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Ode to Yosemite

I was lucky to be there on a crisp, clear October day at just the right time ... Just me alone in the Sierras (with 25 tourists and a film crew from National Geographic...and my trusty Cannon G2). You can see a lot of history in this shot -- the ledge where a young Ansel Adams, climbing with friends, set up his tripod and pulled out the last of his plates to take one of his first great Half Dome pictures. You can just make out the lip at the top encountered unexpectedly by the first team to scale the wall at the very end of their climb -- they had to hang upside down to get around it. You can see why Ansel Adams often used a red filter in this valley -- with that low red sun.

Half Dome probably has been photographed in exactly this way 10,000 times. So obvious today, but we might not have noticed it if John Muir hadn't been around to admire it, and a lot of us might not have taken up photography if Ansel Adams hadn't decided to photograph it. Here in honor of people who cared about nature and geology. #largerthanlife
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Geoff Quinn

Taken in: United States / California / Tuolumne Meadows (show map)

Taken on: October 23, 2006

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