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In Focus: Ansel Adams Photography

Why people love photographs? Photographs are the treasured memories of our life experiences. It reminds us of the beautiful things we observe, perceives, adore and complete or achieve. The question is what it takes to capture creative and quality photos? On 1902, Ansel Adams a well-known American photographer was born in San Francisco California with the passion in photography and natural environment. His passion leads his way to creatively photographed and captured his California life experiences and deliver grand images of California landscape. Ansel Adam believes that it requires the aspiration, appreciation, visualization and execution to produces creative and quality photos. Earlier in his childhood, Ansel Adam discovered his aspiration to photography during his family visits in Yosemite Valley. Armed with a Brownie box camera he took his first image of the Yosemite Valley and fell in love with the beauty of its natural landscape. Pursuing his desire in photography and to acquire a good quality photo of the Yosemite Valley he work in one of the Lodge
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Ansel Adams works are the great example of artworks that express emotion, connection, and aesthetic beauty. What makes Ansel Adams photos unique is his commitment, passion to the natural world and technique that he put in his work. He proves that producing creative and quality photos requires your aspiration to photograph, appreciation for simple thing around us, visualization or creating a mental image of your subject and great execution to create emotion and realistic photos. “I hope my work will encourage self-expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” (Ansel Adams) Indeed, he inspires other photographers and become one of the renowned photographers in our

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