How I was Introduced to Ansel Adams :: Photography Photographers Artists Essays

How I was Introduced to Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams was more than just an artisan he was environmentalist and a photographer. Adams was innate(p) February 20th, 1902 in San Francisco California. This is where I was born before I actd to Andover Massachusettss. I was too girlish to appreciate his work then, but when I went back a a few(prenominal) summers ago to visit my sister in San Francisco, all I precept at the tourists sites was Ansels photographs of the halcyon Gate Bridge. I remember it homogeneous it was yesterday feeling at this photograph of Ansels, the go for is in black and white, and it looks as if the sun is setting, just about 6p.m. I couldnt believe how real this picture looked to me, I knew I had to demoralize it, and it is still up on my wall to this day. Ansel took photographs so expressively, you felt like you were right there with him. Before Ansels photographs, I really had no clutch for nature or how people could spend sixteen hours a day to capture one ph otograph that was perfect. However, after I see Ansels work it all made sense to me, that people were looking for the beauty in eachthing, even a bridge can move people and make them think of that moment in time. Adams eventually unite a girl in California, named Charles Hitchcock Adams. Even when he was a child, Adams had an appreciation for nature. This was brought on because he lived with his grandparents who were extremely conservative. This caused Ansel to be very shy in the public arena and at school, and this played havoc with Ansels education. So as a solution, he received home schooling by his grandfather, and this is where Ansel found his love for the outdoors. His grandfather thought nature was a specific thing and he wanted to share this knowledge of the outdoors with Ansel. This is the reason out why he spends a good amount of time every year at the Yosemite Sierra Park, leaving behind his beloved Golden Gate Bridge. He explored all different kinds of sceneries whe n he went to Yosemite, just so he could see what nature had to offer.Early Life of Ansel AdamsAlso as a young boy he developed a commodious sense of music and was able to play the piano at the eld of twelve. It was an impressive accomplishment because he was self taught.