Ansel Adams is mentioned in every single book about photography at least once. And in every book about landscape and/or nature photography at least three times.. per chapter. I decided to take a look at his work to get some idea of where to go. I am a hard copy type person, so I picked up few albums from library. And indeed, there are few photos I fell in love with. My absolute favorite is “Clearing storm, Sonoma County Hills, 1951″. “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941″ is the runner.

Todays photo is inspired by The Master. I looked through the Wisconsin weekend photos to find one suitable for black & white, with some atmosphere to it. I used Lightroom to convert it, using the steps described by Scott Kelby in his Lightroom book. In essence, I used Grayscale conversion in Develop module and adjusted parameters until I was happy with it. What I like about this particular photo are the clouds converging to one spot.

This is the first of series of photos taken during the Memorial Day weekend around Madison, Wisconsin. On Sunday, when we decided to hit downtown, it started to rain. When we stopped at the traffic light just block from State Capitol, I took this photo using dashboard as “tripod”. I like how the picture is distorted by rain on the windshield of the car…