Nature's Abstractions ~ By Photographer Ashley Adams

Ashley Adams is a San Francisco-based landscape photographer who received her BFA from the Academy of Art University. Her work has been featured in publications such as Photo Induced, Art Acts, and the North American Nature Photography Association’s Expressions Magazine. Most recently Adams was awarded first prize in the Scenes of the Natural World category of PDN Magazine’s The Great Outdoors contest . Her Abstract series is what really cuaght my eye. Have a look.

Photographing Moonbows at Yosemite Park

 From the Milky Way to the moon, the beauty of Yosemite is on display 24 hours a day. During the full moon of the the spring and early summer, lunar rainbows, also known as moonbows, can be seen on many park waterfalls

Photographer Profile ~ Ansel Adams

With more than half a century of camera work behind him, Ansel Adams stands as one of America’s greatest and best known landscape photographers. His career is punctuated with countless elegant, handsomely composed, and technically flawless photographs of magnificent natural landscapes. No contemporary photographer equaled the lifetime contributions of Ansel Adams in bringing public recognition of the art of photography or taught so widely the techniques of black and white photography. His strength as an artist is largely attributed to his tireless investigation of the methods of photography, developing a careful darkroom technique of exposure and development he called the Zone System.

Striking photographs of Yosemite and the surrounding Sierra Nevada capturing the elusive visual myth and mood of these wild places became the wellspring of Ansel Adam’s consciousness and brought him widespread popular acclaim. His intimate understanding as well as passion for conservation of this pristine wilderness gave Ansel Adams the energy and tenacity needed to bring subjects to life for a wider public.

Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which in turn created the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography.

His reputation has been firmly established by exhibitions in virtually every major American art museum, three Guggenheim Fellowships and a score of publications. Photography West Gallery features The Ansel Adams Room with a permanent rotating exhibition of ever-changing images by this legendary master.

 Ansel Adams (After He Got a Contax Camera), by Edward Weston 1936