Ansel Adams

The famous photographer Ansel Adams specialized in black and white photos like the one above, and he did these photos all without digital cameras, just careful planning and manual manipulations.  He did not attend public school but instead was tutored by his parents.  At the age of 12 he took up the piano and this became his other profession besides photography.  In 1927 he did is first visualized photograph.  Adams loved nature and you can tell by all of his photographs such as the famous one above: "Rose and Driftwood".  He first started getting famous in 1933 and did a lot of different types of pieces for Kodak, IBM, LIFE Magazine and many others.