Lower Brother

Lower BrotherArtist Statement I have a deep connection with Yosemite National Park that has stretched over 60 years. When I was 18, I jumped on a Greyhound bus that brought me from Los Angeles to my first job in the park, working at The Ahwahnee hotel. In those first years, I spent days off backpacking in the high Sierra with new friends, which ignited my love for the natural world. Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada have been my home ever since. Collectors have

He strives to create luminous hand-coated platinum & palladium prints that he feels possess a distinctive richness unique to traditional photographic processes

printed by an assistant

PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOSEMITE’S CLIMBING REVOLUTION

As I pondered the possibilities with my viewing frame

and sunlight streamed in at a sharp angle

but before I could pack up a gust of wind blew my camera over on the granite

Not since Adams achieved the peak of his celebrity have posters been widely available to the collectors

To my surprise

North Tower and Rocks

I made careful notes in the field at the time so that I could learn from this experience

was very instructive to Kolbrener

The camera was wrapped in a large Ziploc bag