An Unnamed Peak

A bit of odd scheduling this week kept me from much film development, but I did manage a successful close to an excellent Friday.  I'm celebrating with a look at a stamp (yes, a postage stamp).

There aren't many postage stamps out there with 12,500 dpi (linear) scans of genuine Ansel Adams prints as their raw material.  This is one:

An Unnamed Peak, Kings River Canyon, California
National Archives no. 79-AAH-8Ansel Adams

As regular readers (and Adams-philes) know, the Mural Project images are based on original prints roughly the size of an average piece of typing paper.  Neither stamps nor murals are quite what Adams was burning & dodging for when he created these prints.  However, I would put it to you that it still makes for one heck of a stamp.

As a side note, if we have any readers who can shoot HD video of this location, please feel free to let me know.  Just post a comment.  Thanks.

An Unnamed Peak