"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

 -Ansel Adams

Agreed. Ansel Adams has said that he never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, but he is pleased when a picture he's made becomes useful to an important cause.
"I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I never know in advance precisely what I will photograph. I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath."
He was born in 1902, to relatively elderly parents and lived in San Francisco. When he was four years old an earthquake caused him to be hurled into a brick wall, breaking his nose and as he puts it his "beauty was marred forever." His nose remained notably crooked forever. He never went to war because he says he was too young for the first, and too old for the second. He says, "My world has been a world too few people are lucky enough to live in- one of peace and beauty. I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate." As a child he was often sick, and had a very poor diet consisting of too many sweets and starches, causes him also to have very painful toothaches. He also had a precarious mental state, as by the age of ten he would experience unsettled period of crying. He had an excess of energy that today would have been labelled hyperactive. Ansel felt the only way he could get from place to place was to run, because he was too impatient for walking.

Ansel Adams is most known for his black and white photography, and never felt as confident with colour photography. He said with colour he could not adjust to the limited controls of value and colors, and was never fully confident with his results. However he did make some fantastic colour photographs as well.

Many of his pictures were taken in the Yosemite National Park, California and he was very committed to the Sierra Club. The Sierra club aims for a safe and healthy community to live in, smart energy solutions to combat global warming, and an enduring legacy for America's wild places.

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