#43 Landscape Lessons

John Sexton

John Sexton


Rubin (Outside Modesto, 2016) - Here’s a landscape with no horizon. It wouldn’t ever look interesting on Instagram (and honestly needs to be reasonably large to be savored), but if there hadn’t been clouds it would have suffered greatly.

Rubin (Farm, 2017) And an utterly quiet landscape, with horizon.

Rubin (Moon, Russian Hill, 2016) Here’s an urban landscape. The moon in the sky is extremely subtle, but without it the picture is lost.

Rubin (Sunset, Tulum, 2017). A pretty sunset in this case is improved with the foreground subjects (my kids).

Rubin (Sunset, Tulum, 2017). A pretty sunset in this case is improved with the foreground subjects (my kids).

Ansel Adams

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