Issue 2024.01

The Photographic Landscape

An image of photographer Ansel Adams in the woods
© Ted Orland  Ansel Adams photographing in Yosemite Valley (1973)

Why Ansel Adams Still Inspires (& Confounds) Photographers Today

Words and Images by Ted Orland

The invention of photography, with its unique ability to record endless detail with optical precision, has had a larger effect on our understanding of the landscape than even classic paintings. In the 1860’s, expeditionary photographers revolutionized wilderness photography by creating stunningly detailed large-format views of the American West, while countless itinerant photographers with stereo cameras made tiny three-dimensional views of distant wonders so wildly popular that no well-to-do Victorian household was without its parlor-room stereo card collection.

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Wild Eye Magazine Cover Issue 2024.01

2024.01

Contents

  1. Paul Nicklen on Keeping the Wild in Wildlife Photography
  2. Why Ansel Adams Still Inspires (& Confounds) Photographers Today
  3. Reuben Wu’s Otherworldly Landscapes Were Shot with an iPhone
  4. How to Develop Style in Outdoor Photography
  5. What Photographers Can Learn from Fish
  6. 3 Ways to Give Your Photos More Depth
  7. What’s In Wildlife Photographer Anupam Thombre’s Camera Bag?
  8. Why Monterey Bay Is Great for Photography
  9. How This Incredible Image of Tiny Diatoms Was Captured