In the last week of January 1975, I had been working as Ansel Adams' assistant for nearly six months. I don't recall the particulars now, but Ansel needed something tended to at the classroom/darkroom building behind the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, and I was elected to take care of it.
Once Ansel's request had been taken care of, I was free to head out with my cameras and some friends from the Gallery. We headed to Mirror Lake, where I spent some time working with my 4x5 camera on an ice pattern in the lake. I made a couple of images before we headed back to Yosemite Village.
After lunch, our group drove down to El Portal to help a Gallery employee move some furniture up to a house in the Valley. We had three vans full of furniture. We were just about back to the Village when we all pulled over to gasp at the magical landscape with sun and clouds to the west of Sentinel Rock and Church Meadow. I happened to be the only one of our group of photographers who had pulled his camera gear out and put it ON TOP of all the furniture. I got busy and this is the resulting image. What a great day of photography.
Super Cambo 4x5, Ilford FP4
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints signed and numbered in a limited edition of 100. Each print is made personally by me, printed on Ilford Multigrade Classic fiber paper. Selenium toned. Mounted and over-matted on 4-ply or 8-ply museum board using the most current industry standards for archival permanence.
Open Edition Archival Pigment print made personally by me on Canson Rag Photographique paper using a Canon Pro-1000 printer and my personal printing profiles. Actual image size approximately 8x10 inches, over-matted to 11x14. Digitally signed.
Sizing:
11 x 14 – Image size approximately 9 x 11.5 inches, over-matted to 16x20 on 4-ply museum board.
16x20 – Image size approximately 14x18, over-matted to 22 x28 on 4-ply museum board
20x24 – Image size approximately 18x22, over-matted to 26x32 with 8-ply museum board
24x30 – Image size approximately 22x28, over-matted to 32x40 with 8-ply museum board
30x40 and larger – Archival Pigment Print over-matted to 40x50 on 8-ply museum board