“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” -- famed photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams in his book "The Camera." His crisp, majestic black-and-white landscape photography reflected a life-long commitment to environmental preservation, starting with his first visit to Yosemite National Park at age 12. He was later commissioned by the Interior Department to photograph our national parks, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
(photo: Adams on top of his car in Yosemite in 1942. Cedric Wright Family)
