By
Scott Wurzel
Piece description from the artist
Ansel Adams visited Glacier Bay in 1948 when it was a National Monument and a decade before Alaska would become a state. His photos here featured a lot of close up studies and even the larger landscapes he made featured these same seas of grasses.
Although my shot featured a day clear enough to see Mount Fairweather in the far distance, the weather here is often rainy, and nearly always cloudy. The photographer struggles to keep both themselves and their equipment dry. Film and sensor sensitivity must be maximized with lens apertures wider than is usually ideal for landscape photography. I think back to Adams with his field camera and finicky film. Even with all of the difficult terrains he worked in, Glacier Bay must have been one of the more challenging.
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Currently located in Washington, DC, Scott is a native Floridian photographer specializing in landscape photography. His work explores the interplay of light and dark — rejecting the notion that photography is just “painting with light.” He seeks what resides in the contrast — the liminal spaces of the world.
Scott has shot in some of the most beautiful locations in the world, including Iceland and locations throughout the Old World. But some of his most inspiring locations are right at home in America's enchanting National Parks.
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