Yes, absolutely.

I researched where Ansel Adams took his iconic Mt Williamson Clearing Storm image outside of the Manzinar Relocation Camp in 1944. On a geolocation site, I found the GPS coordinates of the location. At the Manzinar National Monument, I had a long conversation with the senior Ranger who fine-tuned the last two digits of the coordinates and programmed them into my handheld GPS.

Driving off into the sage, about a ½ mile beyond the Manzinar reservoir, the GPS tracking indicator rotated to the right. I pulled over, packed up the camera and tripod, and walked north, until the GPS beeped. I was within 6' of where Adams set up and did his exposure.

It was cold, and there was a storm moving in across the Sierras. I set up the tripod and took the shot, which I call Mt Williamson Building Storm. Ansel Adams' view was centered on the large rock just off the frame to the left.

Two years later I stopped at the Manzinar Visitors Center with a 13x19 print to give to the Ranger, who I discovered had retired. I left the print at the desk and went on. I got a letter a few months later from the National Monument, stating that my image has been made part of the permanent contemporary art collection for the gallery.

In 2019, I was in Yosemite National Park for a workshop. One of the stops was the Ansel Adams Gallery which had an original print of Mt Williamson for sale. I pulled up my image on my iPhone and leaned it next to the print and grabbed a quick snapshot. One of the gallery employees approached, looked at my image, and told me I had nailed the location and the exposure. I later found out he was Adams' grandson.

On the shoulders of giants.

I have a number of images that I’m very proud of, but there is one that I consider very special. It has taken awards and every competition I have entered it in, including the judges choice award in a national competition.

When I took the image it required that I sit and wait for about 25 minutes for the sun to drop down into the position I wanted. I knew ahead of time that the image was going to require two exposures, one for the foreground and one for the sky. Those images would later be blended to give the final result.

Though a number of photographs I've done have ended up in books, won awards, etc., the one that I feel is significant is a piece of crap. However, it was significant in that it was the first that I realized I had accomplished the ability to pre-visualize the scene. The scene was quite dramatic. I set about knowing how the scene appeared and would appear in the final print. The only thing wrong was that I had forgotten to remove my sunglasses and based the exposure on my view through them. The negative would produce only a muddied version of what I had imagined. It looked like the scene did through my sunglasses. But, that was the significance of that photograph.
--Bob

I have a number of images that I’m very proud of, but there is one that I consider very special. It has taken awards and every competition I have entered it in, including the judges choice award in a national competition.

When I took the image it required that I sit and wait for about 25 minutes for the sun to drop down into the position I wanted. I knew ahead of time that the image was going to require two exposures, one for the foreground and one for the sky. Those images would later be blended to give the final result.

Yes, absolutely.

I researched where Ansel Adams took his iconic Mt Williamson Clearing Storm image outside of the Manzinar Relocation Camp in 1944. On a geolocation site, I found the GPS coordinates of the location. At the Manzinar National Monument, I had a long conversation with the senior Ranger who fine-tuned the last two digits of the coordinates and programmed them into my handheld GPS.

Driving off into the sage, about a ½ mile beyond the Manzinar reservoir, the GPS tracking indicator rotated to the right. I pulled over, packed up the camera and tripod, and walked north, until the GPS beeped. I was within 6' of where Adams set up and did his exposure.

It was cold, and there was a storm moving in across the Sierras. I set up the tripod and took the shot, which I call Mt Williamson Building Storm. Ansel Adams' view was centered on the large rock just off the frame to the left.

Two years later I stopped at the Manzinar Visitors Center with a 13x19 print to give to the Ranger, who I discovered had retired. I left the print at the desk and went on. I got a letter a few months later from the National Monument, stating that my image has been made part of the permanent contemporary art collection for the gallery.

In 2019, I was in Yosemite National Park for a workshop. One of the stops was the Ansel Adams Gallery which had an original print of Mt Williamson for sale. I pulled up my image on my iPhone and leaned it next to the print and grabbed a quick snapshot. One of the gallery employees approached, looked at my image, and told me I had nailed the location and the exposure. I later found out he was Adams' grandson.

On the shoulders of giants.