Landscape photographers working a few generations ago had limitations built into the process. Film cost money. Large cameras slowed everything down. A photographer could make an exposure and wait days before knowing exactly what was on the film...
National park photography grew from a long American tradition of artists and photographers using protected landscapes to shape how people see the wilderness. Long before Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Mount Rainier became destinations for travelers, painters such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran and photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams used these places to create images that shaped how Americans saw the wilderness...
