Rex Hammock

Today, it is not unusual to encounter professional photographers and novices alike trying to retrace (Ansel Adam’s) path (at Yosemite). They wait for the perfect minute of moonrise over Half Dome or a shadow on a fallen tree in Siesta Lake. They remember his photo of a juniper tree they saw in a museum, on a coffee cup or a monthly calendar. Ansel Adams’s work, in some ways, is the best unpaid advertising a national park could get.

(New York Times: What Adams Saw Through His Lens)