Lensbased image making

Ansel adams
I would like to try and recreate the Yosemite pieces of work because of the high contrast. I like these images because of the black and white film and the 4x5 camera he took the images on.
Ansel Adams wanted to photograph Yosemite because when he was sick one day when he was 14 he read James Mason Hutchings' 496-page In the Heart of the Sierras, which caught he imagination and then he soon convinced hes parent to go to Yosemite. He walked around with his simple Kodak Brownie that his parents gave him, which then became the start to his love for photographing Yosemite National Park and he love for photography.

Yosemite National park, INFORMATION (nps.gov)

The dramatic plot-lines of Yosemite’s people set in its special places reveal poetic accounts of discovery, survival, hope, and defeat. History books detail the Valley's discovery by Euro-Americans in the years just before 1851 and probably as early as 1833. Then, the Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite Valley on March 27, 1851, as a punitive expedition connected to the Mariposa Indian War. As white settlement soon occurred, a stream of visitors followed on foot, on horseback and by rail (to just outside the park)—staying at rustic hotels owned by adventuresome entrepreneurs. Parts of the landscape became exploited—livestock grazed in meadows and orchards replaced native vegetation—spurring conservationists to appeal for protections. President Abraham Lincoln signed an 1864 bill granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California as an inalienable public trust. John Muir sparked the creation of Yosemite National Park in 1890 after he witnessed the devastation of the subalpine meadows by domestic sheepherds. Hetch Hetchy Valley became the center of a bitter political struggle a decade later when the city of San Francisco wanted to dam the Tuolumne River as a source of drinking water. These captivating stories weave one into another with the next chapter yet to be told.

Anthropologists began studying Yosemite’s cultural heritage in the late 1800s. Since then, archeologists have documented more than 1,500 archeological sites that hold material remnants of past lifeways. By systematically study things left behind—such as tools, ornaments, buildings, food remains, changed landscapes, and indicators of ancient environments—archeologists decipher a cultural chronology and the processes that underlie human behavior. Yosemite archeologists find and document about 25 new sites each year.

This information above came from www.nps.gov

Yosemite national park has been inhabited for nearly 3000 years by humans and animals.A band of Native Americans called the Ahwahneechee lived in Yosemite Valley when the first non-indigenous people entered it.