This beautiful black and white photograph is hand made from Ansel Adams' original negative, and available exclusively from the family-owned Ansel Adams Gallery. This is as close to an Ansel Adams original photograph as most people can purchase, and it is spectacular.
Ansel Adams made this image around 1940 with an 8" x 10” view camera. Sentinel Dome, the second highest point in Yosemite Valley after Half Dome, looms over the south rim of Yosemite Valley , opposite Yosemite Fall and west of Glacier Point.
Though Adams' photograph made the Jeffrey Pine famous, it was long an icon for photographers visiting Yosemite ; Carleton Watkins photographed it in 1867. the easy hike to reach Sentinel Dome from the Glacier Point road, the tree became a popular destination; over the years, thousands of visitors carved their initials into it. Despite the efforts of park rangers who carried buckets of water to it, the tree perished in the drought of 1976-77 and fell in August 2003. "Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome" appears in Ansel Adams: Trees, Yosemite and the High Sierra, Yosemite, Yosemite and the Range of Light , and Classic Images, the book based on the Museum Set Collection, an exclusive portfolio of what Adams considered his strongest work.
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