I Went Back to 1941 to Take the World's Most Famous Photo First

I went back to 1941 with one rule: live the era exactly as it was, except for the phone in my pocket. The mission: stand in a tiny New Mexico village at the exact minute Ansel Adams made "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico", the most famous landscape photograph ever made, and press the shutter first. In the autumn of 1941, Adams had no meter reading he trusted, roughly ninety seconds of usable light, and one sheet of film. It took astronomers nearly fifty years to reconstruct the minute his shutter clicked. My phone worked it out before breakfast. That is the whole experiment: knowledge gets you to the right place at the right minute; what you do with your ninety seconds is still on you. ABOUT THIS FILM Nigel North is an AI-made character and this film was produced with AI video tools, plus an unreasonable amount of real historical research. Made with love and with the deepest respect for Ansel Adams; the original "Moonrise" photograph does not appear in this film. Go see the real one. It is worth it: https://www.anseladams.com THE APP Inverza, the app Nigel uses to know where the sun, the moon, and the light will be, is my own app. Built by one person, for photographers who would rather be early than lucky: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inverza... Different century. Same moon. #photography #AnselAdams #timetravel