I chose this photo because I have always loved clouds and this picture shows my favorite way of

seeing them.

I chose this picture because it’s a breathtaking photo and is something one day I hope to see

and be able to capture on camera.

I chose this last picture because it’s very simple yet beautiful and is something that I would love

to learn to take a picture of.

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 ,in San Francisco, California, U.S. and died on April

22, 1984. Adams was the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century. The

popularity of his photos increased after he passed. Adams went from being a rebellious

hopeless child to a well renowned photographer. His first passion was playing the piano

however, after he reserved his first camera he found a greater passion.  During the 1920s he

formed a powerful attachment verging on devotion to Yosemite Valley and to the High Sierra

that guarded the valley on the east. In the 1930s he had officially decided to devote his life to

photography. In 1930 he met the American photographer Paul Strand and was shown the

negatives that Strand was then making in New Mexico. This experience confirmed his evolution

towards a pure and more realistic style of photography. His work is distinguished from that of

his great 19th-century predecessors who photographed the American West most notably,

Carleton Watkins by his concern for the transient and ephemeral. This acute attention to the

specifics of the physical world was also the root of his intense appreciation of the landscape in

microcosm. Some might view this range in mood in Adams’s work to reflect the contrast

between the benevolent generosity of the valley, with its cool, clear water and lush vegetation,

and the desiccated, inhospitable stringency of the eastern slope of the Sierra.