Classic: Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984 from San Francisco, California. He was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known or his black-and-white photographs of the American West and especially his Yosemite National Park photographs.Adams' interest in photography grew and often brought him up to the mountains accompanied by a mule laden with photographic gear and supplies.


His images were first used for environmental purposes when the Sierra Club was seeking the creation of a nation park in the Kings River region of the Sierra Nevada. He created a limited-edition book, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, which influenced both Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and president Franklin Roosevelt to embrace the Kings Canyon Park idea. 

I like this picture because I thought it looked pretty cool. I feel like black and white gives the photograph more value. Plus this photographer probably would have to kind of close and kind of far to get this landscape. Also to even get the clouds or fog in the image makes it feel more dramatic.