1. ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams was an American photographer who is best known for his black and white photographs of Western America. The category that his
photographs best fall into is nature and landscape. Although not all of his photographs are landscape, they still have a taste of it and a definite
feeling of nature.
Adams uses a large format camera for his photographs so that they create extremely sharp focused images which then allow him to blow them
up to much larger sizes, also a lot of his pictures are in black and white.
For example, this photograph is quite a close up shot and even though it isnt a landscape it still
portrays and links the idea. 
Adams' work has many different purposes. From a commerical side of printing his photographs in
calendars and postcards to also selling original prints. His photography also helped to open
National Parks. People could see that nature was changing through Adams photographs, it was
becoming difficult to find nature without any man made features and so National Parks were
opened to protect wildlife and nature.
One thing that Ansel Adams does with his photographs is
that he portrays meaning and gives us something to
think about. This is another one of Adams photographs.
This landscape photograph also has a theme of
nature, however for me personally when i first looked at
it it gave me the feeling of peace and relaxation. I could
see this through the light underneath the dark sky, as
though the grave yard and the sky had a connection of
peacefulness. Looking at this picture several more times
it also has a very eery feeling due to again the graveyard
and the dark sky. Whichever way you look at this
photograph it still has the idea of nature.