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“The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera." ~ Brett Weston This is one of Brett’s all time great images. I never get tired of looking at it. It seems different each time I view it. It is a moving masterpiece literally. The strong shapes of dark tone contrasts with the light toned glacier to the top of the image and the smaller pieces of the broken, thawed glacier blocks in the foreground. The location is coastal South East Alaska. Photographed with a large plate view camera the image was not cropped. It was exposed on a bright, sunny, cloudless day with no wind, leaving the glacial water like a mirror... pure magic.