Monolith - Face of Half Dome

Ansel Adams. Adams caught this picture with his last plate, using a dark red filter. That is what created the very dark sky in the upper leftmost portion. The Corcoran Gallery of Art has two of these in its show. The first is somewhat smaller, printed in 1927 and on cream colored paper. The next, printed quite a bit later, looks very different, in part because of the different paper used.