| Ansel Adams, most widely known in the photography | | | | photographed and the audiences he required. People |
| world for his immaculate and accurate view of nature, | | | | began to connect Ansel Adams' work with any topic |
| changed the way people looked at photography. | | | | of nature or the environment itself. |
| Adams described himself in three ways: a | | | | While Ansel Adams is most known for his breathtaking |
| photographer, lecturer, and writer. But in actuality, you | | | | nature photography, he also produced spectacular |
| can combine these three facets and call him a | | | | black and white photography. Adams made black and |
| communicator. | | | | white photography what it is today through several |
| Born in 1902, Adams photographic vision was born | | | | pieces of work he created. His black and white |
| immediately as he spent his childhood growing up in the | | | | images helped induce an emotion of timeliness and |
| natural beauty of San Francisco, California. As a shy | | | | freeze a particular moment. While many believe color |
| and lonesome boy, Adams typically took long walks in | | | | adds to a picture, Adams showed that a black and |
| the still-wild reaches of the Golden Gate observing and | | | | white image can say just as much, if not more, than |
| enjoying the nature. | | | | that of a colored image. |
| Ansel Adams' true passion for nature photography | | | | One image that stands out that he created in 1938 |
| came from the Yosemite Sierra, where he spent | | | | was "Half Dome, Merced River, Winter", one of |
| substantial time at from 1916 until his death in 1984. | | | | Adams' most beloved photographs of Yosemite |
| Starting with the Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie that his | | | | Valley. He took the photograph with an 8"x10" view |
| parents gave him, Adams hiked, climbed, and explored | | | | camera from the Old Sentinel Bridge near the |
| the beauty of nature. | | | | Yosemite Chapel. This picture sums up his style |
| In 1930 Adams met photographer Paul Strand, whose | | | | perfectly with the gorgeous mountains covered in |
| images had a huge impact on Adams. It was his | | | | snow, trees all in front of the mountains also covered |
| images that helped move Adams from a pictorial style | | | | in snow, and a river flowing in the middle of the picture. |
| in the 1920's to straight photography. Adams eventually | | | | There are few photographers that have been able to |
| would become straight photography's most articulate | | | | leave a lasting image on people like Ansel Adams. His |
| and masterful photographer. | | | | love and desire for nature enable him to take |
| What characterizes Adams' nature photography more | | | | breathtaking nature photographs. And his black and |
| than anything was his will to travel all around the | | | | white photography has made it what it is today. |
| country in pursuit of both the natural beauty he | | | | |