Today Scott, Sarah, Chandra, Michelle and I went to the Ansel Adams @ 100 exhibit at the World Forestry Center. There were 50 pieces on display, and two in particular that have been imprinted in my mind for years. I can remember writing an essay on the boulders piece in high school photography. Seeing it full size and in person is much nicer. Granite really is beautiful.
Just outside the Ansel gallery was a picture of Theodore Roosevelt & John Muir, and Teddy with Gifford Pinchot. These names were all fixtures in my Environmental Ethics class. All the while Muir & Pinchot (etc…) were battling, Adams captured the escense of these places that most American’s can only experience through his pictures. To his credit, these pictures are almost enough.
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir
someday i hope we can go to Yosemite with you, there are boulders like you’ve never seen before to jump and run and scramble on. It’s so much fun. Thank goodness for Ansel and his ability to capture amazing things on film.
We need you :(
I’m at the library a week before classes start as, despite what foamcore projects may suggest, I have to start my reading, etc. for the semester, but since I’m procrastinating, you might be interested in this .. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030120&s=easterbrook012003