Ansel Adams Musician, teacher, scientist, advocate, and conservationist, are some of the few terms that describe Ansel Adams. He grew up in San Francisco where he was born in 1902 and was first introduced to the expanse of California’s Yosemite Valley while on vacation at the age of 14. At this time he was also given a Number 1 Brownie Box camera. These two seemingly small events strongly influenced the course of Adam’s life. Fascinated by …showed first 75 words of 724 total…

…showed last 75 words of 724 total…that I really enjoyed about his work was the nature shots. He made nature look so appealing to the point where I feel that anyone would enjoy his work, and in fact many people did enjoy his work. I also did enjoy that he only used black and white film. I thought that looking at nature with black and white film would look incomplete and lacking fullness, but instead it made the picture look calm.