When Ansel Adams photographed Precipice Lake on the 1932 Sierra Club High Trip, he made a total of six exposures, but the one he titled “Frozen Lake and Cliffs” is clearly the most successful. The director of the department of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the late John Szarkowski, wrote,
“[Frozen Lake and Cliffs] seems to me not only the best of these six pictures but one of the most memorable of his career. Nevertheless, the other five negatives are not negligible, and might be brought back as trophies by most excellent photographers.” - Jo h n Sz a r ko w s k i