1. Ansel Adams: An American Icon

2. Born on February 20, Took first picture in First Portfolio was Parmelion Prints of High Sierra Married Virginia Best in he developed Zone System of photography which is one of the reasons he is famous Died on April 22, 1984 of heart problems.

3. Master of Photography
“Of all the great black-and-white photographers, Ansel Adams was the blackest and the whitest.”
-Kenneth Brower
“He was a balding, bearded, crooked-nosed man, self-taught, energetic, excited by ideas, a great ham and mimic and comedian .”
“The reason that he is as important to us as I think he is is because he was a good artist, and on his best days he was a terrific artist, and he found some way to put together those little fragments of the world in a way that transformed them into a picture” -John Szarkowski
. . .in the process became one of the best known and most honored photographers in the world.

4. amazing and memorable -Alan Little He created photographs that emphasize the natural beauty of the land. -The Library Of Congress best photographs ever taken. -Howard Miller If you think a photographer has to use color film to capture breathtaking images, this exhibition is bound to change your mind. -Howard Miller

10. Broke his nose at age 4 in SF earthquake
Founder of Sierra Club
Dedicated Environmentalist
Fought for Human Rights
Photographer of the American West

11. In 1892 a group of professors from the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University helped John Muir launch an organization modeled after the eastern Appalachian Mountain Club. The Sierra Club's charter members elected Muir president, an office he held until his death in The Club's first goals included establishing Glacier and Mount Rainier national parks, convincing the California legislature to give Yosemite Valley to the Federal government, and saving California's coastal redwoods. Muir escorted President Teddy Roosevelt through Yosemite in 1903, and two years later the California legislature ceded Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to the Federal government. The Sierra Club won its first lobbying victory with the creation of the country's second national park, after Yellowstone in 1872.
In the first decade of the 1900s, the Sierra Club became embroiled in the famous Hetch Hetchy controversy that divided preservationists from "resource management" conservationists. For years the city of San Francisco had been having problems with a privately-owned water company that provided poor service at high rates. Mayor James D. Phelan’s reform administration wanted to set up a municipally-owned water utility and revived an earlier proposal to dam the Hetch Hetchy valley. The final straw was the water company's failure to provide adequate water to fight the fires that destroyed much of the city following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Gifford Pinchot, a progressive supporter of public utilities and head of the U.S. Forest Service, which then had jurisdiction over the national parks, backed the Hetch Hetchy dam. Muir appealed to his friend President Roosevelt, who would not commit himself against the dam, given its popularity with the people of San Francisco

12. Hetch Hetchy Valley

15. Muir began a national campaign against the dam, attracting the support of many eastern conservationists. With the election of Woodrow Wilson, supporters of the dam had a friend in the White House. The bill to dam Hetch Hetchy passed Congress in 1913, and the Sierra Club had lost its first major battle. In retaliation, the Club supported creation of the National Park Service in During the 1920s and 30s, the Sierra Club served its members as a social and recreational society, conducting outings, improving trails and building huts and lodges in the Sierras. Preservation campaigns included a several-year effort to enlarge Sequoia National Park (achieved in 1926) and over three decades of work to protect and then preserve Kings Canyon National Park (established in 1940).

16. “Art Challenges Technology and Technolgy Inspires Art” - Pixar

17. 1st – Duplicate the Layer – right click on layer
2nd Change Color – Pulldown Image – Adjustment – Black and White
3rd – Use Image – Adjustment – Curves to make Black and white
4th Add Layer Mask (button on bottom of layers) – Use Brush – black on top to hide
5th –Save as a jpg and submit to Canvas