Ansel Adams, AI, and the Essence of Creation

What will we have left when we do nothing ourselves?

AI Prompt: “ansel adams clouds snow peaked mountains.” Substack’s built-in image generator.

Two days ago my family visited the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, which is currently housing a wonderful collection of Ansel Adams photographs. I was not familiar with Adams’ work previously (I know—I’m ignorant), but it was lovely seeing not just his early works bu…