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Yellowstone Canyon from Artist Point<br> United States picture - In 1871, the great landscape painter Thomas Moran accompanied an expedition to Yellowstone and brought back a painting of this scene which, along with the first photos made of the site by William Henry Jackson, inspired the US government to protect thirty five hundred acres of the Yellowstone area forever. It would be the first American landscape painting by an American artist ever brought by the American government. I stood with my camera where Moran himself stood, on Artist Point, and made this image of the canyon leading to the mighty Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. I’ve made my own “painting” of this iconic landscape vista, a blend of light, shadow, color, and scale.
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In 1871, the great landscape painter Thomas Moran accompanied an expedition to Yellowstone and brought back a painting of this scene which, along with the first photos made of the site by William Henry Jackson, inspired the US government to protect thirty five hundred acres of the Yellowstone area forever. It would be the first American landscape painting by an American artist ever brought by the American government. I stood with my camera where Moran himself stood, on Artist Point, and made this image of the canyon leading to the mighty Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. I’ve made my own “painting” of this iconic landscape vista, a blend of light, shadow, color, and scale.
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