A tree falls in Yosemite...

[venchka]

If...

You have Examples by Ansel Adams...

And you were planning to photograph the oak tree on the bank of the Merced River...

The tree has fallen into the river.

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...649#post441649

Which brings up the question: Do you have photographs of things that don't exist anymore? I know I do. Some of them are very recent. Our world is changing at an alarming rate.

Cheers!

venchka added 190 Minutes and 28 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

A famous tree falls in Yosemite. Did it make a sound?

How can one tree be famous? It can be famous if Ansel Adams photographed it.



And said this about it...

About this Photograph
Ansel Adams made this image around 1950 with an aluminum 8" x 10" Kodak camera, a replica of the Kodak wooden flatbed camera that once belonged to the Greenland explorer Louise Boyd.

He'd driven past the spot often, glimpsing it from the corner of his eye. Then one morning moments after the sun rose over Yosemite Valley, he stopped to capture "Early Morning, Merced River " just steps from the highway. In Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs , he recalls making the image:

“This serene subject is only about one hundred feet from the highway; I have passed it hundreds of times, and I retain many ?corner of the eye' memories of it at all times of the year. The shapes, even glimpsed from a moving car, were always beautiful, but the lighting conditions usually were impossible. On this morning I could not resist; a glance was enough to command me to stop, park my car, and carry my equipment to the scene. My eye enjoyed a wonderful impression of light in all areas, but it was a very high contrast subject for the film, and I recognized this problem as I was setting up the camera."

Adams generally declined to describe how he visualized images, believing words failed to convey the qualities of expressive images. However, he did address the sequence of procedures that led to his making the photograph:

"I am sure the image developed in my unconscious mind over time; on the morning the picture was made I recognized the desired image immediately. All the components fell into place in terms of form and value. The mood of the image was established and visualized intuitively.”

"Early Morning, Merced River " appears in Yosemite and the Range of Light (out of print), Yosemite and the High Sierra , and Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.

[johnastovall]

Oh yes, I have pictures of places and people that now only exist as shadows of silver.

[studiocygnet]

Yep, I took this picture about January 5th on the way back from Houston (portra film/Pentax ME Super). Went back to Houston again on the 23rd, and someone had kicked in a couple of the plywood panels where the saying was painted. I've got another photo I'm fond of with some old wooden docks in fog just down the hill from my house. They were replaced with metal and concrete docks last year. So I'm sure it happens all the time. I'm just not quite as famous as Ansel

[kenw]

Tom was that at IH10/US90 crossing east of Seguin? If so, i watched that place decay for 30+ years.

I do have a lot of photos of locomotives that now exist only as razor blades and car fenders. Lots....

[Steelsun]

I took a picture last year in Arches NP of the arch that ended up collapsing about a month later. Sucked that it happened and that my images was crap too.

[Jeff_Green]

Originally Posted by venchka

If...

You have Examples by Ansel Adams...

And you were planning to photograph the oak tree on the bank of the Merced River...

The tree has fallen into the river.

Our world is changing at an alarming rate.

That is truly sad that such a beautiful part of nature has fallen, but I don't know that I can say the world is changing at an alarming rate if it was taken by Ansel Adams many years ago (as an older tree) and is just now falling! I hear trees die from time to time!

[venchka]

Right Jeff. However, since moving to Texas in 2005 I have photographs of things that don't exist today. Mostly man made stuff. I'm sure if I had been paying attention, there are a few subdivisions today that weren't here in 2005.

The good news is that nothing has happened to Half Dome, El Capitan, etc. except for some ongoing natural erosion.

[sporkthedork]

Maybe the fallen tree is an opportunity in itself for a new photograph.

[jeffkohn]

I've always loved that shot. The lighting is just magical, and the smaller scale of this image is a bit different from the grander scenes in so many of his most famous images.