Viewpoint, Lower Salt River Canyon, Arizona, 2009

The New 100 Prints Project — Image #92

I remember the first time I pulled into the Wawona Viewpoint and looked back into Yosemite Valley. I said out loud, "Of course," standing where Ansel Adams made his wonderful Clearing Winter Storm image from right there, probably in the parking lot of the roadside turnout. One need not always suffer for art. Sometimes the tourist spots are the perfect place from which to make an image. Be that as it may, it is still up to us to select the light, the composition, the moment. I can only hope that this image captures that feeling of setting sun on a hot day with a fraction of the success Adams' had in capturing the foggy, wet storm in his image.

Print specifications:

• These pigment-on-paper prints are from the folio The New 100 Prints Project to be released in the fall of 2009 after the project is complete.
• In the meantime, individual prints can be purchased one-at-a-time.
• Images are approximately 7x9" on 8x10½" paper.
• As folio prints, there is text below the image that includes the image title and folio title.
• Printed in warm-tone K3 archival Epson inks using an Epson 4880 printer.
• Printed on either Hahnemuhle Photo Rag or Harman Glossy FB AL.
  
• These ummatted prints are shipped enclosed in an archival crystal clear sleeve with backer board.
  
• Packaged flat for shipping.