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MFstooges

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I swear BC is the most beautiful place on earth. I have had a scenery almost like this with the morning fog at Liard River Bridge.
 

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Wow, lots of "street view" work.
I enjoy this topic but haven't made a concerted effort to re-photograph any specific scene yet. (I definitely have some ideas).

Mark Klett seems to have made a very concerted effort;

The Rephotographic Survey Project — Mark Klett

www.markklett.com

I like the idea of starting from earlier photographs where information is scarce.
 

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mshchem said:
I wonder if the earth view was turned in such a way as to satisfy us Northern Hemisphere dwellers? It seems like the orientation of the Apollo ship would be random. Such an amazing Kodak (and Hasselblad/Zeiss) moment.
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That's Africa, Antarctica, Madagascar, and Arabia.
 

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While I haven't personally gone in search of a location through travels I have been in locations that fit the thread. But that's not what I will share.
Quite a few years ago two sisters who were patients brought in a portfolio of fifty Francis Frith albumen prints from the 1860's to show me. At the time we had a photography organization and I asked if we found a suitable space would they lend them for an exhibition. At the same time I happened to have a book of comparative photography by Jane Reese Williams a collector of Elizabithen photography. She had gone 100 years after Frith and photographed from as close as possible as Frith's position the same sites in the Middle East mainly Egypt. The best location I could get was the main Miami-Dade public library with the catch that we would also have to present an educational program such as a lecture with it. I was able to track down Ms Williams in Santa Fe and she had fifty different Frith photographs and consented to crate them and send them as well as to come to be part of the program. The library wanted an Egyptologist as well. I happened to also have a patient who was well connected and. knew Mrs Sadat. She called the Egyptian Embassy in Washington and they arranged for Dr Zahi Hawass to come down. He stayed with us and spoke on the program. On a trip to Egypt he arranged for my wife and her sister to visit sites off limits to tourists. By the time the exhibit ended the library said about 5000 people had seen it
A chance happenstance that turned out to be a terrific experience.


 

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No. I've never gone looking for someone else's tripod positions. Why would I? But I have accidentally stumbled onto a number of specific AA spots in the high country. There are just certain logical places to set up a tripod, like on a big flat rock. Doesn't mean I took the same picture or even the same angle of view - I didn't. Let AA be AA; let me be me. The weather and lighting are always changing anyway.

Retrographic surveys are a somewhat different topic - they have a stated historical objective.
 

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I have not been to any famous photographer's locations, but I certainly would if given the chance find, dare I say, spots of some of AA's most famous images........I'm unabashed when it comes to admiring his photography, style, and his teaching of it, as it has taught me immensely in what I am able to do. I would seek them if I knew I was close to such a location, because I would consider it exciting. And with just as much certainty, I would also find my own tripod spots and come away with something that is unique to me and be just as excited about it.
 

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There's a Stanley Park in Blackpool Lancashire U.K
 

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DREW WILEY

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Millions of people have stood right where AA did when taking some of his most famous shots, like at the big overlook turnout
just after the tunnel entering Yosemite Valley - the kind of tour bus trampled location I dread and avoid. Plenty of other spots in Yosemite Valley are perfectly obvious. Makes no difference. The seasons and lighting conditions are always changing; and millions of other people for some genetic reason just don't happen to be AA. Thank goodness he didn't own a cell phone!

I lived fairly close to there, but have taken only a quite limited number of shots in Yosemite Valley itself. There is another Yosemite, where one can walk for a week with the distinct possibility of encountering no one else.

Many of AA's highway locations are easily identified too. It's just that a lot of things might have changed since then, like the intrusion of development and clutter.

But I was referring more to accidentally stumbling into some his tripod locations in the high country, where it takes some real effort to get to. Same issues - the scenes and their lighting are constantly changing. And who wants another damn postcard image anyway? I don't get any thrill knowing he was once there. What gives me a much greater thrill is finding an obsidian dart point left behind on some remote high pass 12,000 years before Ansel was ever born. In other words, there's more to being a "pioneer" than what exists in modern public records.

I used to get in some heated arguments with another backcountry enthusiast who claimed he was the person who invented trail running. Heck, I explained to him, the person who invented trail running was being chased by a cave bear back in the Ice Ages.
 
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