Romancing the Stone is Ariadne’s thread for the photographer, leading him on labyrinthine wanderings to the most exotic corners of our planet. His affinity for rock is akin to Michelangelo’s passion for marble. The great national parks of North America – Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Teton, Arches – and the dozens of other unique natural formations that entranced the great Ansel Adams and his thousands of followers their whole lives have also drawn Daniil Yakovlev in, calling him back again and again. The black and white world has been replaced by color, film by digital, but the intoxication of those places does not depend on time or photographic technology.