A Thousand Words

Ansel Adams had a general rule by which he assessed how 'successful' a picture was: has the photographer captured an image that conveys and even stirs emotion in a viewer of that image?

My images below were taken over a period of more than five decades and evoke strong memories for me. I am not one of those condescending photographers who patronises those using cameras that are not on the 'approve list of' the latest digital kit.

Some of the best landscape photographs were taken by Adams using [glass] plates to capture a negative.

Some camera clubs have 'special sections' on their websites for those 'special' people who use a phone camera!

A camera-is-a-camera-is-a-camera: from pinhole to the latest flagship Nikon (or Fuji, or Canon, or....). It really does not matter. In fact, it could be argued that it is easier to get a 'better' image (in focus, correctly exposed and so on) with a modern machine loaded with software, than it is to use a film camera from 1955.

So, to the images below. Some have been taken with older film cameras, others with more modern equipment - including phone cameras. I will not single-out which is which.

Basically, the technology used does not matter; these are images that are special to me and I hope that they stir some sense of emotion in you, the viewer.

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