Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 to upper class parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams in San Francisco, California. He grew up different from other children taking no interest in sports but nature, collecting bugs and exploring San Francisco. His first photography experience was with a 3-inch telescope his father had brought him when he was young. As a child, Ansel was constantly in and out of different schools and later transferred to homeschooling. His father always raised him to follow ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson "to live a modest, moral life guided by a social responsibility to man and to nature." His first interest was in playing the piano and he learned how to read notes. For a while that was his intended profession but then he gave up on piano for photography. In 1916, Ansel took his first trip to Yosemite and took picture using the brownie camera. A new era had begun for him and from then on he continued his road of photography. He married Virginia Best in 1928. From her he inherited a studio from his artist father-in-law in 1935, and continued to operate the studio until 1971. His best know works were in Yosemite national Park. Some of his works were,- Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927. (Taken with his Korona view camera using glass plates and a dark red filter, climbed up Le Conte gully under the north cliff of Grizzly peak, the picture is framed in rule of thirds and expresses value.)
- Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, 1932.
- El Capitan, Winter, Sunrise, 1968
Heidi was born in 1959 in Springfield, Ohio. She used old cameras to bring out value. Her camera she used was called the Holga Camera. Most of her pictures were taken in Iceland. Kirkpatrick’s work is more for a woman’s view.
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Examples of Heidi's Work.....
- Her work has a sense of darkness and creativity
- Her photos represent symmetry and value
- She develops her own images
