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Grand Tetons from The Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, July, 1976
Taken forty-nine years ago and twenty-four years after Ansel Adams made his famed image of this scene from near this same spot in 1942, a comparison of images reveals much.
Adam’s photograph captured far more dramatic clouds pierced by the rays of a setting sun. My image was made on a diffused cloudy bright late afternoon devoid of dramatic directional light. The conifers on the near bank of the Snake River had grown substantially in the years between 1942 and 1976, blocking the strong s-curve lead-in element that the river provided in Adam’s photograph.
Adams captured his image with a 300mm normal focal length lens on an 8×10 view camera, while I used a 210mm lens on a 4×5 view camera. Thus his image revealed a wider breadth of the Teton range, while my intent was to compress the apparent distance between the foreground and the distant mountains.
Comparisons aside, there are thousands of photographers who have no doubt come to this place to emulate Adam’s photograph over the years, only to be disappointed, as was I, that the view he captured would be difficult to emulate in 1976 or today.
Nonetheless, I make no apologies for this image, which is my interpretation of this breathtaking scene as I witnessed it on my first visit to the Tetons in July of 1976, the two hundredth anniversary year of our nation’s birth, soon to be the two hundred fiftieth.
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