The Sunset That Takes Your Breath Away

[Bo Zarts]

10. I used to be an f/64 adherent, until I discovered the joys of fog, mist, and rain.

Actually, I still am a practicing f/64 layman and Adams disciple who enjoys an occasional indulgence in soft-focus pictorialism with natural filters like fog, mist, and rain.

However, I have read that Adams predicted and anticipated the development of digital cameras and digital processing. His markups of proof prints for further processing (dodge and burn for example) were extremely labor intensive . I can't help but think that he would love the better qualities of Lightroom, Photoshop, Nik, Topaz, and all the rest of the panoply of digital tools. And Ansel's photography platform on his woodie wagons would have made a bodacious drone operating pad.