Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Adams c. 1950
Kodak No 1 Brownie Model B box camera, the first model Adams owned
Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park (1921)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California (1927)
Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes. Landscape photography is done for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the most common is to recall a personal observation or experience while in the outdoors, especially when traveling. Others pursue it particularly as an outdoor lifestyle, to be involved with nature and the elements, some as an escape from the artificial world.
The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) by Ansel Adams
Photograph showing weather and distant mountains, Armenia (2008)
Farm landscape, in this case a rapeseed field in France
Panoramic view of Oslo cityscape