My Ansel Adam's "Inspiration Point in the Tetons" retake!

[24megapixseal]

The problem is, the trees have grown up!....

Ansel took his famous photo in 1942, 83 years ago ...and according to park geologists, every year to mountains go up a half inch, and the valley drops a half inch, for a total of 1" per year rise....in my photo, the Tetons are 83" TALLER....of course, I can see that

Ansel's famous (and rightly so!) photo

And my feeble attempt...of course, I did every thing wrong....morning instead of evening, hardly any clouds, again, too many trees now, can't see the Snake River... ...late summer verses spring so the rivers not very full from spring snow runoff....etc etc etc

But, it was fun to stand in the same place as ol Ansel and take in the beauty of the Tetons....

Taken with my Pixel 7a, edited in LR Mobile

 

[Don Fischer]

Ya know Ansel didn't have a camera like we have today. Secret to guy's like Ansel Adams is they learned how and when to take a photo. To big differences to me anyway, between Ansel's and yours. First would be time of day the photo's were taken and huge second, the sky. The sky in both takes up quite a bit of room and in Ansel's it really complements the whole photo.

 

[SquarePeg]

Ya know Ansel didn't have a camera like we have today. Secret to guy's like Ansel Adams is they learned how and when to take a photo. To big differences to me anyway, between Ansel's and yours. First would be time of day the photo's were taken and huge second, the sky. The sky in both takes up quite a bit of room and in Ansel's it really complements the whole photo.

When people go to a destination like Grand Teton NP it’s sometimes a once in a lifetime chance. No one can control what the sky looks like on any given day. Did you read the accompanying narrative? OP already made their own comments about the clouds and time of day being less than ideal.

 

[Don Fischer]

I don't recall the comment's about clouds and time of day but know exactly what your talking about. Old deserted house about 30 miles from here I have been trying to get for years and only one time, recently, have I found any useable cloud cover there. Yep, know where your coming from.

 

[smoke665]

@24megapixseal I'd say you did a darn good job capturing the spirit of the Ansel shot!!

 

[SquarePeg]

I don't recall the comment's about clouds and time of day but know exactly what your talking about. Old deserted house about 30 miles from here I have been trying to get for years and only one time, recently, have I found any useable cloud cover there. Yep, know where your coming from.

It’s in the original post after the Ansel photo.