(Above: Falling Ansel)

I thought falling water was a beautiful emulation of the last image in my samples of Adams' photographs because it was a structure that blended into nature, yet had a color contrast that made it stand out.

What made Adams' style very difficult to replicate was his multiple-exposure, zone system. To work with this in the digital world, I stacked many layers of the photo atop one another, and then I desaturized, contrasted, and negated some of them, selecting areas to make more transparent so those sections would stand out. As seen below, I practiced this with an image taken up close with low aperture, trying to flesh out my use of the zone system to accentuate the many colors of the thistle.