Ansel Adams and His Camera by Kate Combs & Seth Lucas

by Kate Combs

art by Seth Lucas

Photographer Ansel Adams got his start with a Brownie Box camera at the age of twelve in Yosemite National Park, where he would later take his iconic photo of Half Dome. Ansel joined the Sierra Club as a teen and served on the board of directors for thirty-seven years. In 1941 the US Department of the Interior hired him to take photographs of the national parks. Ansel lobbies to expand the park system, especially helping to create Kings Canyon National Parks.