Talent Not Left Undiscovered : A Great Impact On The Preservation And Conservation Of Nature

Ansel adams and John Davies are both very famous and well known landscape photographers who have very conceptual ideas and techniques in their photography. they are both known for their brilliant black and white landscape photography.

I have decided to do my essay on one of Ansel Adams most famous photographs from his long and successful career titled Half Dome. The photograph of Half Dome medium of the photograph is black and white. Ansel Adams in my opinion is one of the greatest photographers of all time. I believe his photographs are a work of art. Ansel Adams was a true visual genius with a camera, he went to a location set up his camera and the end result was always perfect. When I look at a photograph that was taken by Ansel Adams I feel at ease. It is almost like taking a short vacation in front of a photograph. The way Ansel Adams uses black and white in his photographs is amazing to me. The one thing that amazes me the most about Ansel Adams is even

"The splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious... One wonder after another descended upon us... There was light everywhere... A new era began for me" (“American Experience | Ansel Adams | People & Events”). In year of 1916, he took his first trip to Yosemite National Park with his family. There, he saw the incredible views of the park, views he would continuously see throughout his life. His passion, not only for photography, but for nature surfaced during this first trip to Yosemite in California. Nobody knew that this sudden passion would affect the environment the way it did. Ansel Adams used his photography in order to help national parks gain popularity, as well as to help environmental groups. As one can see, Ansel Adams was an extremely influential photographer and environmentalist, because of his dedication to preserving nature, his support to the Sierra Club, and his famous black and white photography.

In June of 1916, Ansel Adams was introduced to Yosemite on a family vacation. His parents presented him with his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie No. 1. After his first visit, he returned year after year during the summer months to takes snapshots of the Yosemite Valley (Nash 5). He spent a substantial amount of time in the Sierra Nevada from 1916 until his death in 1984 (Turnage). Three years after his first visit, Ansel Adams made his first contact with the Sierra Club at age seventeen (Ansel Adams). The Sierra Clubs main purpose was for the protection of the Yosemite Valley and the preservations of "the natural world's wonders' and resources"(Ansel Adams). According to the National Park Service's article, "Ansel Adams," Adams took a job working as a custodian for the LeConte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite's first visitor center and club headquarters in the Yosemite National Park. For the next four summers Adams would work at the lodge (Nash 6). This was the start of Adams future with Yosemite, and he began to devote all of his energy to discovering its beauty. His interest in the mountains brought him back consistently to take snapshots of the valley. In 1927, Adams took his first outing or "High Trip" with the Sierra Club. These trips were part of the clubs efforts to gain new supporters by letting people hike, camp and

A great influence on Ansel’s choice was Paul Strand, a brilliant photographer, and by then a new friend of Ansel. The wonderful work of Strand had a decisive effect on Ansel’s choice of careers; he was to become a professional photographer. a short wile after, he joined many other brilliant photographers, the likes of Edward Weston, Jon Paul Edwards, Willard Van Dyke and man others to form the “f/64”, a group dedicated to photography that looks like photography, not like an imitation of another art form.

Ansel Adams is a famous American photographer. He is well known for capturing images of the American West. Ansel was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. As a toddler Ansel was in “the great earthquake and fire of 1906” (Turnage). This caused him to break his nose and kept him a lasting mark all through his life. With having a broken nose and being shy while in school years Ansel was not successful with fitting in. But, “his father and aunt tutored him at home” (Turnage) helping him obtain a diploma from a private school. Growing up he lived “in a “house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate” (Turnage).

Ansel Adams was a talented individual, but his main passion was photography. He was a naturalist artist taking many photos of many elegant landscapes, and other environmental settings. He was born in San Francisco, California. As a boy he enjoyed the environment very much and took many walks near beautiful landscapes. He had a great aspiration for music as a child but photography excited him. He published his first photos by the club of San Francisco's headquarters. Adams later pursued straight photography in which the clarity of the lens is emphasized, and the final product of the photo does not look manipulated at all. Through the years Adams became the champion of straight photography perfecting his techniques. Adams works have received

When Watkins had first moved to San Francisco, California he worked as a delivery boy and then became a daguerreotypist. Before this job, Watkins had no prior knowledge of photography or how any of it worked. Once he took this job, he learned the basics of photography and excelled at his new job. This is when he recognized he really had the eye for photography and the natural talent. Around 1858, Watkins decided to open his own business and began doing many commission photographs and even made daguerreotype stereo views which were used in a highly public court case which made him even more of a household name.

In 1916 Ansel Adams was a photographer who used his work to promote conservation of the wild around the area. He took a trip to Yosemite National Park where he saw more than what lay in the national park, when he looked through the lense he was fascinated. He continued to tay photos of the nature that lay beneath him in Yosemite. Later Adams was on a roll and he then began to learn darkroom techniques. He also read many photography magazines. Ansel Adams also went to photography meetings and he would go to art exhibits.

Ansel Adams a photographer and environmentalist, was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. He was the grandson of a wealthy timber baron. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son.

Ansel Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a photographer and environmentalist born in San Francisco, California. He was the only child and son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. When he was four years old, the aftershock of the great earthquake of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose that marked him for the rest of his life. In 1907, the family fortune collapsed in a financial panic and his father spent the rest of his life trying to recover. His parents and the presence of his mother’s sister created an environment that was Victorian. Intelligent, timid, and his nose injury, caused Adams to have trouble in school. This led him to be tutored at home by his father and aunt and in the end completed

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” - Ansel Adams Ansel Adams was a great man. He was an Environmentalist, Lecturer, Conversationalist and most importantly a Photographer. He has inspired many with his beautiful pictures of nature. He has inspired many to look at nature in a whole new way.

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California to parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray on February 20th, 1902. The Adams family was known to be lavishly wealthy, but in 1907 the family’s wealth tired tremendously causing his father to spend the rest of his life trying to build back the family’s fortune. Through it all, he found a love for nature and its surrounding elements. Shortly after, he taught himself how to read music and to play the piano, later becoming a professional pianist by 1920, only to end his career to take up photography in nature thanks to a Kodak no.1 box brownie camera his parents had given him in earlier years. In this essay we are going to evaluate how I believe Ansel

Ansel Adams, a photographer, was inspired by the American way of life. Adam was born in San Francisco to a well off family, but that would change in the Panic of 1907. Adams father would

However, Adams faced criticism and struggled with each noble act he committed. In the simplest terms, Adams was a true conservationist. He wanted to preserve not only the physical land, but its wild, pristine spirit. He feared, as many environmentalists now fear, that the parks would become “’loved to death’ by backpackers and other visitors, through sheer weight of numbers” (Turnage 5). Perhaps, his belief that the parks should be left alone accounts for the reason why he never photographed any people in his scenery, a criticism his works face today. However, Ansel Adams took pictures worthy of the words of such legendary writers as Rachel Carson or Ed Abbey. His art was fundamental to the success and expansion of the environmental movement. As truly heroic deeds are never forgotten, Ansel Adams’ voice, art, mission, and passion will continue to captivate audiences and motivate Americans to protect their environment in every