At 09:37 PM 12/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>George wrote,
><<The downside is, Ansel has made it extrememly difficult to make a good,
>original B&W photograph in my favorite photo destination, Yosemite.>>
Charlie wrote:
>Or are you viewing it with his work in mind?
>Try forgetting his influence and use your own vision.
That's sort of like telling Brahms to relax and forget about Beethoven. :-)
(Brahms famous line about why he waited so long to write his First
Symphony: "You have no idea what it's like to constantly hear the
footsteps of that giant behind you.")
I know that when I spent some time in Yosemite, everywhere I looked, I felt
I was treading in the footsteps of Ansel Adams. Those images have become
archetypes.
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