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Leaf, Glacier Bay National Monument
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I choose this picture by Ansel Adams because although it is black and white in my head I can picture the orange color of the leaf and and the green around it. The way that he captured this picture makes me feel like the moment was frozen in time and he got that shot just at the right second. This picture is sharp, clear and it appeals to one's eyes because of all the details in the leaf. There is also more than black and white colors in this picture which just captures the depth of the leaf even more. This picture makes me feel calm and safe, which in his time was probably the purpose or message Adams was getting across about saving nature and national parks.
Before attending Mrs. Kate M Wilkins Private School where Ansel Adams got a diploma equivalent to eighth grade education, he was home schooled by his father and aunt. The other profession that Ansel Adams had before becoming a photographer was to be a professional musician he loved and was good at playing the piano. His first fully visualized photographed, monolith, the Face of Half Dome was created in 1927. Three interesting things that I learned about Ansel Adams was that at age four he broke his nose in the aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906. When he was twelve Ansel Adams taught himself how to play the piano and read the music, this lead to him taking lessons which took the place of actually going to school. Playing the piano also gave him a sense a structure and discipline which where helpful since he may have suffered from dyslexia and may have been hyperactive. Besides being a photographer Ansel Adams was an environmentalist, and most of the pictures he took where symbols of wild America, in these pictures Adams managed to capture nature in a much more intense and pure form than any other photographer had before.
