![]() Since Adams first photographed the tree, age has taken its toll and it succumbed to fire in recent years. ![]() Drawn from natural history essays, poems, journals, photographers’ and critics’ observations, this anthology approach will complement and expand upon the reverence and passion for the beauty of trees so apparent in Adams’ photographs. This towering oak at the western fringe of El Capitan Meadow was among his favorite subjects. Accompanying the images will be text and poetry excerpts from a variety of writers and observers, both contemporary and historic. This book will present some fifty of Adams’ finest photographs of trees – a wide range of imagery from towering redwood groves to flowering orchards majestic pine forest to leafy deciduous woods wood and bark details to gnarled tree stumps close-ups of snow-laden branches to leaf patterns against the sky and, of course, many a portrait of the mighty trees of the Sierra and the American West. His long career left us with hundreds of remarkable photos. Several of our represented photographers are former assistants of Ansel Adams or students. ![]() He is also a consummate photographer of trees and forest woodland, creating stirring portraits of giant oaks in Yosemite Valley and capturing the shimmering beauty of an aspen grove in New Mexico. Adams’ knowledge of cameras and the science behind them allowed him to visualize his photos before he took them. The Ansel Adams Gallery represents over 20 artists, in addition the work of Ansel Adams, whose artwork embodies the stunning landscape and soul that is Yosemite National Park and the American West. ![]() The great American photographer Ansel Adams is justly famous for his heroic mountain landscapes. ![]()
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