Get your science out of my art
Astronomers have pinpointed the exact time and location where Ansel Adams was when he made the famous photograph Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point. And the exact same conditions are about to reoccur on September 15!
So what? Silly scientists. First of all, we have the Ansel Adams photo already. We don't need to recreate it. Secondly, Ansel Adams didn't need that exact time and location to make a great photograph. He needed his artistic sensibility, something these scientists clearly lack. Make your own photographs, scientists.
Plus, Adams reinterpreted many photos in the "dark room," sometimes decades later.
Not sure if he did that with this photo, but anyway, there's way more to those photos than being in the right place at the right time.
Still, it's an interesting way to look at it.
"Although Adams was meticulous about recording the technical details of his shots, film types, lens settings, exposure speeds and so on, he was terrible at recording times and places. Some commentators had thought the shot dated from 1944."
Adams was meticulous, so I'd bet he'd be in.