Today, we’re featuring a beautiful photo series from film photographer Scott Mansfield. Here is more from Scott about capturing Discover in the Sierra Mountains…
The project is called Discover. It was a solo, multi-week walk into the High Sierra mountains to explore creative solitude, disconnection, and simplicity. I took only a fixed lens camera called a Hasselblad 903SWC, fifty rolls of film, and a battered copy of Thoreau’s Walden. I took no electronics; no phone, no GPS, no communication of any kind. I took no tent or sleeping bag, just a small tarp and a warm blanket. I spent three weeks walking in the wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park practicing simplicity and letting go, wandering off-trail and on, in some of the most secluded areas in the Sierras. What developed was a personal exploration of myself and the wilderness I love so dearly.
The simplicity of taking only one mechanical, single-lens camera aligned with the simplicity I sought. It lent time and attention to deepening my creative connection to the landscape of the Sierra Mountains. Landscape photography can be about many things: observation, patience, exploration, structure, contrast, transcendence. At its deepest, it’s a product of the artist’s interpretation of place, and a reflection of themself. This, to me, is what landscape photography is truly about.
Analog cameras and films used: Hasselblad 903SWC (Find at KEH Camera or on eBay) | Ilford Delta 100 (Find on Amazon)
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