Ansel Adams

• (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984)
• Born in San Francisco
• When he was 12 taught himself how to play the piano
• Played it for years, and in 1920 wanted it to be his career
• Piano brought structure and discipline to his youth 
• Loved nature very much and had loved Golden Gate
• He went to Yosemite from 1916- his death 
• He first started using a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him to take photos
• At the Sierra Club his first published photographs and writings appeared in the club's 1922 Bulletin
• In 1927 he made his first fully visualized photograph, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome.
• Adams was one of the founding members of the f/64 school or group
• A group of  photographers who shared similar interests and goals
• A commercial photographer for 30 years,
• made visionary photos of western landscapes
• won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the national parks (1944--58)
• developed zone exposure to get maximum tonal range from black-and-white film
• Adams saved the Yosemite National Parks because he showed people the beauty of the nature through his own lens and showed them how beautiful Yosemite is.
• Mostly all of his pictures are captured in Black and White

There is a lot of value, line, shape, form, and contrast in this photograph. There is also balance by position in this photograph. The road seems to be getting smaller because it is getting farther away. There is great texture in this photo also. The framing of this photograph is symmetrical balance.