Near Lyons, Colorado 1977

Robert Adams made this photograph somewhere ‘Near Lyons, Colorado,’ and you know, I can almost feel that thin mountain air. It's like a memory, not quite in focus, more a sense of place. I bet Adams spent a long time setting up the shot, waiting for the light to be just right, but trying not to fuss too much. You know, letting the scene speak for itself. Landscape photography is like abstract painting in some ways. It's all about composition, light, and how you frame the world. This is how we feel the atmosphere, the weight of the hills, the vastness of the sky. And the subtle shifts in tone create a kind of emotional landscape too, quiet but powerful. Adams is in dialogue with photographers like Carleton Watkins and Timothy O'Sullivan. And I'm sure someone will be looking at Adams’s work years from now and finding something new in it. That's the thing about art, it keeps talking across time.