sadja wrote:
Hi Ben, not sure I agree with your conclusions or your statement that mountains have \'faces\' (unlike architecture, which most definitely has faces\". IMO the iconic view of Schawbacher Landing owes much of its popularity not to the mountains, but to the combinaation of river, reflections, fall color AND the mountains. Your 2nd view is less interesting, not because we don\'t immediatly identiy the peaks, but because the scene lacks the elements of composition and subject that work together to create a scene that is \'greater\' than its parts.
Guess your concept of the Tetons is not like mine. I could draw them or see them drawn in a quick sketch and know what it was. But they only have that shape from a certain range of view points.
The famous Snake River overlook scene has a different but still recognizable view.
By the way, Don H showed me this place in 2005 and said this was pretty close to where AA shot it.
Sep 06, 2012 at 07:08 PM
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