Happy Birthday Adams.

Ansel Adams was born on this date in 1902.

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Ansel Adams

Adams was the subject of a 1981 documentary produced by PBS. It's excellent.

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4 (Playing Beethoven; with O'Keeffe)



Part 5 (With O'Keeffe)



Part 6



Part 7




Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
- Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams, Thundercloud, Lake Tahoe, 1938



The Ansel Adams Gallery is here.