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Ansel Adams

I chose this photo because I love the contrast and the textures. It kinda feels like I'm sitting by this tree in the middle of the night, just watching it all.

     Ansel Adams was the only son of a wealthy businessman and his wife. He grew up in San Francisco in the early 1900's and his family lost their fortune in 1907, when he was five. He switched schools a lot at first because he couldn't fit in. Eventually his parents gave up on the schools and started home-schooling him for a while. He went back to school and received the equivalent of an eighth grade education. When Ansel was twelve, he taught himself how to play the piano, which he played for about twelve years and he wanted it to be a career for him.
      Before Ansel became a photographer, he was an environmentalist with the Sierra Club and he continued this while he was a photographer. As Ansel grew up, he started taking an interest in photography. He began taking photos with the Sierra Club and that is when he shot his first fully visualized photo, "The Face of Half Dome" in 1927.