Ansel Adams

Born	Ansel Easton Adams February 20, 1902 San Francisco, California, United States
Died	April 22, 1984 (aged 82) Monterey, California
Nationality	American
Education	Private and home
Occupation	Photographer and Conservationist
Influenced by	Paul Strand, Edward Weston
Spouse	Virginia Rose Best
Children	2
Parents	Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams
Ansel Adams was a renowned landscape photographer born in 1902 in Sanfrancisco to wealthy parents. At the age of 8 his parents bought him his first camera, The Box Brownie, later on in life he took images of the American mid west in at the Yosemite National Park, by this time he had moved on to large format cameras set on a tripod. He was very influential in the development of photography and cameras. The image below is one of his most famous called Moonrise at Hernandez in the New Mexico desert shot in 1941. Adams lead a successful career right up until his death in 1984.																												Photograph by Ansel Adams

"Sometimes I do get to places
just when God's ready to have
somebody click the shutter." - Ansel Adams-

My Thoughts

Ansel Adams is my kind of photographer, I personally like black and white landscape images, it gives more mood and contrast to an image, sometimes colour in certain cases can seem cluttered an to many distractions.

Sean Wareing 2012