Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1960

'I have made many of my well-known photographs with the Hasselblad, but to single one out, a favorite is Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1960. I was driving a bit aimlessly around the valley one winter afternoon, when I clearly saw an image in my mind’s eye of Half Dome as the moon rose over its right shoulder. I parked my car and with my Hasselblad and tripod firmly positioned across my shoulder, I strode over the snowy field in front of the Ahwahnee until I found the place that best revealed the scene. The photograph shows Half Dome, surely the most distinctively shaped mountain in the world, partially darkened by late afternoon shadows with its seemingly smaller companion, the near-full moon' (Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 375).