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I Love This Picture--Move Over Ansel Adams! By John D. Verlin

Iconic. That's the first word that comes to mind when I first saw this picture after taking it in September of 2007 with my camera at Grand Teton National Park. It's one of the black and white photographs that made Ansel Adams famous. I recently enlarged this print to 11x14 and matted it in a 16x20 white frame. The richness of the gray/black/white hues popped out of the frame--and up against my latte-colored walls--really was stunning! Most likely will mount in my office in a nice viewing site from my desk. Thus is the beauty of photographic art that was produced with a simple Minolta Dimage XI, 1.7 megapixel camera when I was in the Grand Tetons in September of 2007. I remember taking this shot--driving down a gravel/dirt road at Grand Teton National Park and finding the right location to center the ranch house (dating back to the 1900's) in line with the beautiful Teton range. A physician I know loved this image so much that he had a full color one