An interesting sky last evening. I have been calling these Ephemera for years, but in fact all of my images are ephemeral.

John Szarkowski in writing about Ansel Adams described his work as being a bridge between the romantic artists for whom wilderness was “. . . a metaphor for freedom and heroic aspirations” and a new generation of artists “. . . who have sketched the outlines of a new pictorial understanding of the wild landscape, based on nature’s intimate details, its unnoted cases, its ephemeral gestures.”

While I am certainly not Ansel Adams in any way, I am among his many spiritual descendants. The description “. . . based on nature’s intimate details, its unnoted cases, its ephemeral gestures” surely does ring true when considering my work. The question one might consider is so what?

John Szarkowski from the preface to Celebrating the American Earth — A Tribute to Ansel Adams, published by The Wilderness Society.

Canon 5D Mark II, 75mm Pentax 645-A, Aperture 3, Photoshop CS5.