When I think of nature photography my mind travels back to thoughts of Ansel Adams.
Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist who originally hailed from San Francisco, California long before it became the woke tragedy of democrat government mismanagement everyone seeks to escape nowadays.
He was born February 20 1902 and passed April 22, 1984. He was from a wealthy family who lost it all and he was marked for life by an aftershock of the great earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906 ... when he was four years old.
He predated my general disdain for tree huggers and their deleterious effects on the economy by a long shot. During the course of his life he took many black and white photographs of nature and the American West. I am particularly fond of some of his work in Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains as well as the Pueblo construction ruins around Colorado.
He even took a portrait of the snapperhead and second worse president of the United States EVER, one Jimmy Carter. Boo ! He was also an accomplished pianist who played a grand piano. Truly a man of multiple talents.
After a lifetime of photography and environmentalist work he succumbed to cardiovascular disease in Monterey California at the age of 82.
And still his landscapes of the American West stand in his stead as those national treasures he himself was as well.
Today is Nature Photography Day. It is celebrated each June 15 in an effort to promote both nature and photography.
I hope you can get out and take a few photographs. Do it for you. Do it for posterity. Do it for Ansel Adams.