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This is a scene which has
been made famous first by Ansel Adams and subsequently
revisited by many other famous and some not so famous
photographers. It is easy to appreciate why it has
been so frequently photographed especially when one views
the scene in person. My conviction in photographing
this scene was not to merely copy what others had done far
better than I could ever dream of in earlier work but to
render my own concept of this powerful landscape. I
used the Toyo 4x5 GX View Camera with the Schneider 72mm
Super Angulon XL lens with a Schneider center filter to
expose this image on Kodak Portra 160VC sheet film.
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