Of course, I’ve always known that you can use a polarizer to darken the sky. When you are at right angles to the sun. And I knew something of how they could reduce reflections, as in windows or ponds. But I had never taken that to heart and thought »
As we were driving along I-94 from Lake Michigan today, I looked at a stand of trees, no idea if they were aspens, but they had that exposed, bright lower trunks look, and I thought how cool they looked, and I wondered if there is something built into us to appreciate that sight, or whether it’s because Ansel brought them to our attention.
I did this completely independent of the fact that an hour later we stopped at the Ella Sharp Museum, just S of Jackson, MI to look at a special exhibition of Ansel Adams prints, including 2 different aspen studies. »