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Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer famous for his black-and-white shots of the American West, the Yosemite National Park in particular. The photographs Adams captured have become household images, reproduced prolifically on posters, calendars...etc.

Adams was resistant towards the “art for life’s sake” movement of the 1930s which emphasized human suffering during the Great Depression. Adams instead opted for environmentalist work, taking photos of nature in a call for its careful preservation. In 1938 he wrote a book on the Sierra Nevada in a bid to have the area designated a National Park. Of the Yosemite Valley, Adams wrote; “To me, it is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.” I bet Adams would never have let himself get caught out with a flat battery. Remember to take your lp-e5 with you everywhere!