Rare rock in mist, taken at Heavenly Sea New Path, June 2004, 1 PM - Wang WushengThe landscape photographs of Ansel Adams were probably the first photographs I really studied, they got me interested in photography. I obviously looked too deeply because now I find most landscape photography very dull.
But occasionally I see something that wakes me up. The photograph above is by Wang Wusheng one of several young talents from China whose work I'm enjoying.
Yes, we've seen it all these days, haven't we? Though actually BEING in a natural landscape is never tiresome, a perfectly executed image for the calendar or crossword puzzle is so common it makes us yawn or we fail to see it altogether. One has to capture the spirit of a landscape on paper to be noticed. I'm not a photographer, so I don't know how that's done. I only know it when I see it.
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