Ansel Adams and F/64 group photography

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American Photographer born on February 20, 1902, in San Fransisco, California.

He was best known for his images of the American West, particularly Yosemite National Park. 

Adams used his photography work to promote conservation of wilderness areas and his black and white images helped to establish photography among the fine arts. 

I find his imagery inspiring as his landscapes often  present a 'mood' within them. I also like how he sometimes forms abstracts to allow viewers to question what the image really is. 

Adams was a member of the F/64 group which is possibly the most famous art movement in the history of photography.

The group began in 1932 and besides Adams it consisted of 10 other photographers. 

The name referred to the smallest aperture available in large format view cameras at the time. I like how the name signalled the group's conviction that photographs should celebrate rather than disguise the medium's unrivalled capacity to present the world "as it is".

I like how they have obviously put a lot of thought in to the composition of the images as if they hadn't, their intention of presenting the "world as is" wouldn't have been as successful. 

I would like to experiment taking landscapes of the world that we live in now, in a style similar to this to see what results I can come up with. It would also be interesting to see what differences there are between the world that they captured and the one that is seen today.