Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist who was born in 1902. His black and white photographs of the United States’ Incredible landscapes are some of the most iconic romanticised photographs all over the world, especially those of  National Parks and incredible Mountains-scapes, which are widely seen all over the globe on calendars, poster prints, t-shirts, desktop backgrounds and of course all over the internet.

He was notorious for using the aperture setting f/64 in most of his work as it gave him the aesthetic exposure that he desired. This is evident in fact that he, alongside fellow photographers Edward Weston and Williard Van Dyke were the founders of the photography group named ‘ Group f/64 ‘ . The name of course represented their love for the f/64 aperture.

Here are some of my favourite photographs produced by Adams…

And here is a video which goes into depth about Ansel Adam’s life as a landscape photographer…