Ansel Adams's Moonlight over Hernandez: The GPS coordinates for the location from which Adams made his iconic photograph are known so one can easily find the exact location. I am...

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

The GPS coordinates for the location from which Adams made his iconic photograph are known so one can easily find the exact location. I am wondering
if any Western US photographers have made a visit and photographed the scene. I would be curious to see how different it might be now.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Here is one from a Google search:

http://www.kevinshick.com/blog/2013/4/revisiting-hernandez-nm

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Rongnongno Loc: FL

ricardo7 wrote:

The GPS coordinates for the location from which Adams made his iconic photograph are known so one can easily find the exact location. I am wondering
if any Western US photographers have made a visit and photographed the scene. I would be curious to see how different it might be now.

Now THAT would be a goal for you when and IF you come to the US for a vacation. Should be interesting for you to see with your own eyes.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Keep in mind, it was not so much the location that was special, but the time of day and weather conditions at that very moment Adams took the photo. The conditions are what set the mood. The location itself is fairly mundane, then and as it is now.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

Linda From Maine wrote:

Here is one from a Google search:

http://www.kevinshick.com/blog/2013/4/revisiting-hernandez-nm

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Looks to me that Adams was further away (smaller focal length?) and higher in elevation. I've seen pictures of him on top of his vehicle
with a camera on tripod. That could make a difference.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

Rongnongno wrote:

Now THAT would be a goal for you when and IF you come to the US for a vacation. Should be interesting for you to see with your own eyes.

I will be traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago along Route 66 during the last two weeks of September. Hernandez is not far from
Santa Fe which I will be visiting. I hope I get something interesting.

A.J.R. Loc: Devon, UK

This might be of interest
http://petapixel.com/2016/06/24/making-ansel-adams-famous-image/

Kuzano

ricardo7 wrote:

Looks to me that Adams was further away (smaller focal length?) and higher in elevation. I've seen pictures of him on top of his vehicle
with a camera on tripod. That could make a difference.

It would also depend to a large extent if the vehicle was his International Harvester Travel-All Utility Wagon, Or his Buick station wagon with a platform on top. The International has the platform about a foot higher than the Buick did!!!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Kuzano wrote:

It would also depend to a large extent if the vehicle was his International Harvester Travel-All Utility Wagon, Or his Buick station wagon with a platform on top. The International has the platform about a foot higher than the Buick did!!!

Something to be said for solid camera support!

SonyBug

I red that he shot it on a ladder. So what difference would 10 feet elevation make? Maybe a lot, and maybe not...

Nikocarol Loc: NM & FL

I spent a lot of time trying to get "this shot"...too many trees and it is over grown with "stuff" I used my son's truck to give me elevation still didn't work. I lived in Santa Fe and would go to Hernandez often, I became friendly with a few old timers and was given a tour of the cemetery, the church and the town "I was never sure why they accepted me, but they did" . I did get a shot of a burial site right in front of someone house. Some fantastic old cars but no Moon over Hernandez. That moon never seemed to be where is it was in the image. The key with locals in NM and any place that I've traveled is to talk to them. Don't get freaked out because they look so different...now if you feel threatened...then run Forrest run! hahaha

bcrawf

ricardo7 wrote:

Looks to me that Adams was further away (smaller focal length?) and higher in elevation. I've seen pictures of him on top of his vehicle
with a camera on tripod. That could make a difference.

Yes, Adams said he took the exposure from the roof platform of his vehicle.

Richard Mann

There is an injustice to Ansel Adams by retitling "Moonrise Hernandez, New Mexico" to read as you are titling it as "Moonlight over Hernandez" We have an autographed Gelatin silver reproduction purchased from him personally at his Yosemite studio. Retitle any other copy-cat recordings from the same location is fine, but please respect Ansel Adams's integrity of addressing his work as he would have liked it. https://www.google.com/?client=safari#q=moonrise+hernandez+new+mexico.

Jersey guy Loc: New Joisey

The moon does not revolve around the earth in a nice neat orbit with resepct to our equator. Depending on the time of year it can appear higher or lower in the sky even at full moon. So you'd have to have been there not only at full moon but at the right time of the year.

Nikocarol wrote:

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Richard Mann

Correction;"Moonrise Hernandez, New Mexico" Re:https://www.google.com/?client=safari#q=moonrise+hernandez+new+mexico