Ansel Adams made, essentially, a great image from the spot, Tunnel View, in Yosemite Valley.
Ansel Adams was asked, how many people are in your photographs?
Ansel Adams, he used the zone system to find out what the different exposures were in these different zones from very dark to very
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Jeff Ansell: I think, Patrick, to a certain extent we are.
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Jeff Ansell: Well here's the thing: who's the audience?
Jeff Ansell: I'm gonna say I'm gonna lean towards compassion because here's the deal.
Jeff Ansell: No you are.
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Jeff Ansell: I think it's for the same reason that people slow their cars to look at accidents on the highway on the other side; because there's that curiosity.
I was channeling Ansel Adams.
I studied photography with Ansel Adams, Judy Dader, Winn Bullock.
Did anyone recognize Saint Anselm's argument for the ontological existence of God?
And -- Jeff Ansell: I've been called worse.
I was going to be all Ansel Adams, you know, fantastic.
One of my other major influences is Ansel Adams, who definitely works in the tradition
But so it was my homage to Ansel storm clearing over Butte, Montana.
It was made famous by Ansel Adams.
So if you come to Dominique Ansel Kitchen, we have a large portion of our menu that we make to order, like this very light, fluffy chocolate
And you had folks like Ansel Adams producing majestic black and white images in the first half of the 20th century.
So looking at the pictures of Ansel Adams and starting to study his work, I got into the wet dark room and into film cameras, became interested in technology.
And the large-format stuff that Ansel Adams favored could be magnificent.
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The idea being if my electric guitar is the Ansel Adams clear black and white photo, I want to hear the smashed Picasso version, something
I conceived this image as an homage to Ansel Adams because he'd photographed it so many times.
This is almost an omen to one of the Ansel Adam shots, the Hernandez shot.
So now I'm working with raw files-- and I think Ansel Adams always said that pretty much
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Is that heresy to say that in the heart of Ansel Adams land?
Now, some people here -- Ansel Adams probably would like the scene because he didn't include people in the scene, but I like to put people in
Those of you who are not familiar with Saint Anselm's ontological argument, I'll boil it down for you again.
with A. Anselm, Aquinas. Peter Abelard, who it turns out, has an interesting story independent
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