Then bring friends around it.
by jjbeguin

Comment:
"Who can hope to unite a people who champion 275 different kinds of cheese?" One might start, I imagine, by serving up this photo; for it represents several of the unique and simple pleasures that are unique to France. It is an extraordinary photo.

I am constantly amazed at how you cast a loving eye on things mere mortals see as mundane and ordinary and then photographically transform them into things almost other-worldly. Is this a thing that can be learned? Does one have to be French to learn it? Or does one just smile, and say 'cheese?'

Yes He Took Portraits Also
by Travis99

Comment:
And he used directional light and got us to see strong textures - both strong points of this photo. I'm afraid most of my time looking at this phot has been in trying to figure out how the highlight behind the subject was made. And in this sense I find it highly distracting. I try to refocus on the subject, but I keep getting pulled away...

Looking thru
by Nuno

Comment:
This is a competently exposed photo, and the lighting is good. The apparatus held by the subject clutters and confuses. And if this were not the case, it would still have no discernable link to the challenge.

Let me See!
by melking

Comment:
Strong, directional light, texture in skin, simple and uncluttered image. These match what little I know of Ansel Adam's portrait work. It's a beautiful shot. Thanks for going out on a limb.

Mendocino Coast
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Good location and nice strong contrast. The blacks seem just a little too big and blotchy to me.

Adamised
by Mr Tee

Comment:
It's quite gorgeous, but that gaussian blur seems a little out of place.

urban.ansel
by the-O-ster

Comment:
It's a remarkably successful shot in terms of evoking AA's work, even though it does not have the dark sky with big puffy clouds, or snow-capped mountains, or streams, or barren trees, or blades of grass. There is a kind of brutish ugliness that this scene portrays that is the complete opposite of the pristine beauty AA photographed. I guess that's the point.

'Heaven'
by Fyzarl

Comment:
"Over the top." I see this as a kind of caricture of the Ansel Adam's sky. It's a stunning shot, and it fits the challlenge.

Cold down here
by johnmk

Comment:
I love the texture in the snow and the framing of the duck. Does not evoke AA for me.

Chapel Oaks Ranch
by rblanton

Comment:
Much drama here. It's a great shot, but I wonder if the tree on the right is just a little too big and black? Or does it need to be exactly like that to anchor the photo?