Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, CA in February 20th 1902. Ansel Adams was a smart but shy kid at a young age. Unfortunately, through out his school years he had problems fitting in due to that he was a smart and shy kid. Also because he had a broken nose ever since he was four years old. At the age of 12 he began to play the piano and taught himself how to read music. Soon enough it became his occupation until he was 22 years old. But then soon after left music, to do his passion, which was photography. It was not until 1927 that his first photograph was fully visualized. It was a photograph of monolith, the face of half dome. After seeing the success of this photograph, it gave him the inspiration to peruse his dreams. 

Three interesting facts of Adams are:

• That Adams had a passion to photograph the wilderness and the environment.
• He described himself as a photographer, lecturer, and a writer.
• Adams vast achieve of papers, memorabilia, correspondence, negative and many fine photographic prints are now at the center of creative photographs at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

I Chose this photograph of Ansel Adams because I loved how Adams chose the perfect angle to take the picture. As I saw this picture the first thing that caught my eye was the river because its lighter than the trees around it. As I followed the river, it took my eyes to the mountains. The white snow on the mountains gave this picture a better texture and made it look perfect. The clouds in this picture just made the picture better because it gives you that feeling of hope. It looks like a beautiful day after a stormy morning. I just loved everything about this picture because there is so much to look at and admire from it.