EMMETT SPARLING 🌎 TRAVEL
I wrote this poem while trekking through the Annapurna region of the Himalayas. The Himalayas are sacred to the Nepalese people. Their belief that each mountain is a powerful god is at the forefront of my mind as I stand at the foothills of Annapurna. The feeling you get while standing, surrounded by the biggest peaks on earth is nothing short of spiritual. Created using my iPad Air and Apple Pencil.
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Love the storytelling
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Noice 😍
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Stunning words and photos 😍
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I love this approach 😍
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Great 👏👏
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awesome set, makes it feel like i was there 🔥👏
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Love this 🫶🏽
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Incroyable et spectaculaire série de photos, la 4 ème photo est juste improbable, quelle réussite 🔥🔥
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Beautiful
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❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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Awesome 😍
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🙌✨
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So powerful and amazing 😍😍🔥
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This is so cool! What font do you use?
Ansel Adams Photographer, Artist & Activist
*Happy Birthday to Ansel’s ‘Monolith’!* 🏞️ “Born” on this day, April 10, 1927. Andrea Stillman’s biography “Looking at Ansel Adams” includes a wonderful chapter all about this storied photograph: “In 1992 I was in Ansel’s workroom selecting images for a prospective book of his photographs when Virginia appeared and announced that she had found a stash of home movies from the late 1920s and 1930S. With anticipation we rented a movie projector to screen them. Miraculously, one reel included footage of the trek to the Diving Board. It showed Ansel in his favorite plus fours, lugging his forty-pound pack, with a rakish fedora hat and the Keds high-top basketball shoes he favored for hiking. “The climbers struggled up…in deep snow, and when they reached the Diving Board they pulled each other up with a ludicrously thin rope. Virginia fearlessly inched out onto the sharply angled granite spur, and when she reached the tip she stood up and blithely waved. It seems appropriate that Ansel presented the very first print of ‘Monolith’ to Virginia. “Ansel was twenty-five years old when he made ‘Monolith.’ At age eighty he was able to recall the experience of making the negative, every detail as clear as it more than a half century had not elapsed. He photographed Half Dome hundreds of times, and there are many different interpretations that include moons, clouds, snow, flowers, leaves, trees, even deer and people. In 1978, during one of his last annual Yosemite workshops, he and his photographic assistant, John Sexton, contemplated Half Dome together and talked about the taking of ‘Monolith’ in 1927. According to John, Ansel laughingly confided, ‘Maybe I should just have stopped then.’” Text, film footage and Ansel Adams images are copyright ©️The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved. John Sexton’s photograph courtesy of @johnsextonphoto. All rights reserved.