Ansel Adams helped develop and test various film types for Edwin Land of Polaroid, but the most famous of all is Type 55 which gives the photographer a re-usable super-high resolution negative. At ISO 25, the grain is very fine.

The photos above are Polaroid Type 55 4x5" negatives scanned in on Epson scanner. They were shot with a Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic on Saturday February 3rd, 2007, the morning after our 2nd snow "storm" of winter season.

I recently bought Ansel Adams' Polaroid Land Photography, an essential book documenting all of his research and testing in Polaroid films and printing (many people don't realize that much of his photography involved Polaroid processes). It's been a great inspiration for me. In this book, the artist Ansel Adams is balanced with the technical Ansel Adams. In essence, he breaks down his photos into their componant parts, explains various methodologies, principles, systems and processes he used to make them, and explains in deep detail those processes that will help enable the photographer to get the results he or she wants. I highly recommend the book if anybody is interested in Polaroid photogrpahy.

Many of the photos in Polaroid Land Photography are taken in the greater Boston area. As I walk along trails, streams and ponds here west of Boston and Cambridge, I can't help but think maybe Ansel himself visited these snow woods as well.