200503311 Ji Chang-Min, a five-paragraph essay on p.176

Chang-min Ji 200503311

Jon H. Bahk-Halberg

Intermediate English Writing(1)

May 29th.

Feel an environmentalist's heart

 

        Think about a view of the mountains. Have you thought that a mountain is just a mountain and gives us peace and calm? If looking at two above landscapes of the mountains, you will be surprised at images and feelings of mountains. One is called "The Tetons and the Snake River", by Ansel Adams, who included this picture in his photograph collection Parmellian Prints of the High Sierras, published in 1942. The other is called "Mount Williamson" by him which is included in his other collection My Camera in the National Parks, published in 1950. Both photographs have mountains and rain clouds as the background, but the expressions made by other parts are very different.

        In the The Tetons and the Snake River, you see a river course and a part of a mountain range under rain clouds. The river is Teton River, a branch of the Henrys Fork of the Snake River and the range is the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. The overall mood of the photographs is sharp, gloomy, and cold. First of all, most trees and mountains are acute, which doesn't give us peace or a warm atmosphere. Contrary to a general impression, they are rather cold and gloomy. Somehow, I feel the areas are becoming devastated and ruined, and things are being changed into something negative. It means the photograph has more or less dynamics.

        In the Mount Williamson, you also can see mountains and rain clouds. But instead of river, there are many rocks. Approximately, rocks at the front of photograph are big and ones at the back are small. This perspective makes me feel as if I were standing there. In addition, a ray of light is shone onto the center of the photos. The sun's ray lighten some rocks which I focus on in spite of myself. Thanks to the ray, there seems a ray of hope in the atmosphere.

        In the Mount Williamson, there are rocks while a river course in the The Tetons and the Snake River. Also, a ray of light creates a rosy atmosphere in one, but there is only dark and gloomy in the other. Due to different perspective, it seems as if I were standing at the center of locks in the Williamson Mountain, while I were looking down the landscape on the other mountain in the other photograph. But both photographs show mountains and rain clouds as the background and were taken by a photographer, an environmentalist. His many photograph collections including the two photographs consist of photographs about the theme of the environment.

        Two landscapes are depicted in these two photographs. As you see above, these landscapes have both differences and similarities. They show differences in perspective, subject materials, existence of the sun's ray, and atmosphere. But they have similar mountains and rain clouds as the background and more to the point, an environmentalist took the two photographs to protect our environment.