INSPIRED BY ANSEL ADAMS

A detail of a tree trunk, dettaglio di un tronco di albero tagliato con gli anelli in vista

I took these photos during a weekend spent at F’s house in the mountains. Purposely underexposed (perhaps a little too much…), I wanted to enhance the high contrast between summer light and shadows.

Before leaving to the mountains I was searching for some inspiration around which building something photo essay-ish, because I am not a big fan of mountains so whenever I go there I tend to stay stuck at home all the time (very stupid, I know).

As I usually do when I need some input to make my creative juices flow, I rely on the Maestri as a starting point to initiate a project, and that’s exactly what I did with the (obviously unreachable) work of Ansel Adams and his beautiful trees.

It turned out to be both an entertaining and challenging exercise on looking at something familiar in a different way, doing my best to portray “my” trees in an interesting way choosing the element light + shadow as a common “keyword” among all photos.

Detail of tree roots in a forest, dettaglio di radici in una foresta

Detail of a broken tree trunk in a forest covered in mushrooms, dettaglio di un tronco di albero spezzato in un bosco o foresta coperto da funghi

Light and shadow play on a tree trunk with its own roots and a brightened up tree on the background, gioco di luci e di ombre in un bosco o in una foresta, con un grosso albero e le sue radici in evidenza in primo piano e un albero illuminato dal sole in secondo piano