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You need to see a proper print for a start, that copy is truly dreadful.
The story behind the taking of the image as far as I can remember is this, Ansell Adams was trekking through yosemeti in winter looking for photographs. He had with him 12 (I think) 12" x 10" glass plate negatives and had used all but one of them when he came on that view. He set up the big wooden box camera and did what he did best, captured one of his most famous images using the only plate he had left. His 'Zone System'* for gauging exposure times is what enable him to capture the whole range of tones from black to pure white without any part of the image being blown out.
Personally though my favourite AA image is "Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake"
*I'd need to go and look at the book to see if he was calling it that then, or wether he was still developing the idea.
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