” Click of Life “

Nevade Fall Rainbow — Ansel Adams, “Nevada Fall, Rainbow,”

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” – Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams Artworks & Famous Photography | TheArtStory

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” – Ansel Adams

Two Tewa descending wooden stairs, carrying drums; another Indian and child near by, "Dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, 1942." (vertical orientation); From the series Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, compiled 1941 - 1942

“Our lives at times seem a study in contrast… love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong… everything seen in absolutes of black & white.

Too often we are not aware that it is the ” Shades of Grey ” that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.” – Ansel Adams

J. Malcolm Greany, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Ansel Easton Adams ( 1902 – 1984 ) become the most celebrated landscape photographer of his generation, a passionate environmentalist who’s black and white landscapes of the American West are still believed to be amongst the finest ever created.