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

How I was Introduced to Ansel Adams Ansel Adams was more than just an artist; he was environmentalist and a photographer. Adams was born February 20th, 1902 in San Francisco California. This is where I was born before I moved to Andover Massachusetts’s. I was too young to appreciate his work then, but when I went back a few summers ago to visit my sister in San Francisco, all I saw at the tourist’s sites was Ansel’s photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge. I remember it like it was yesterday looking at this photograph of Ansel’s, the picture is in black and white, and it looks as if the sun is setting, just about 6p.m. I couldn’t believe how real this picture looked to me, I knew I had to buy 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 Ansel’s photographs, I really had no appreciation for nature or how people could spend sixteen hours a day to capture one photograph that was perfect. Ho wever, after I saw Ansel’s work it all made sense to me, that people were looking for the beauty in everything, even a bridge can move people and make them think of that moment in time. Adams eventually married 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 Ansel’s 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 special thing and he wanted to share this knowledge of the outdoors with Ansel. This is the reason 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 when he went to Yosemit e, just so he could see what nature had to offer. Early Life of Ansel Adams Also as a young boy he developed a great sense of music and was able to play the piano at the age of twelve. It was an impressive accomplishment because he was self taught.