What: Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea
When: April 2013
Where: National Maritime Museum
What a day by the river. What a breathtaking exhibition. I'd been wanting to see Ansel Adams' exhibition at the National Maritime Museum for some time. I became interested in his work after watching a documentary on his landscape photography technique. His careful black and white manipulations of waterfalls, geysers, rivers and the oceans are a sight to behold. What makes Adams' interesting as the candid way in which he discusses his technique of finding the right place, the right time and moment to take the shot and then using the dark room to manipulate the image for it show the emotion he felt inside when taking it. He also talks about the advent of digital and the future of photography, it was a shame he never got to see any more than its early beginnings.
Fresh from our time with Ansel it was then time to take a scenic walk along the Thames and marvel and the river and the surrounding landscape just to contrast a little from the empty coastlines of America to the simple beauty of the London wasteland. A great day if ever there was one.
For Details Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea
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