Where the Buffalo Roam, And One Can’t Doomscroll

In the spring of 1942, landscape photographer Ansel Adams stood on the roof of his Pontiac with its wood-paneled doors, peering into his 8x10 view camera, mounted on a tripod with its lens aimed at the craggy peaks of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons. The Snake River formed an S-curve below. In his photograph, the peaks were nearly covered in snow above the timberline, as they were when we briefly visited in mid-October. I stood next to an outdoor display of his photographs at the site where Ansel made his famous image of the Tetons and Snake River. Of course, I attempted to create my own highly inferior...

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