1. ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams was an American photographer who is best known for his black and white photographs of
Western America. The category that his photographs best fall into is nature and landscape. Although not all of
his photographs are landscape, they still have a taste of it and a definite feeling of nature.
Adams uses a large format camera for his photographs so that they create extremely sharp focused images
which then allow him to blow them up to much larger sizes, also a lot of his pictures are in black and white.
For example, this photograph is quite a close up shot and even though it
isnt a landscape it still portrays and links the idea. 
Adams' work has many different purposes. From a commerical side of
printing his photographs in calendars and postcards to also selling original
prints. His photography also helped to open National Parks. People could
see that nature was changing through Adams photographs, it was
becoming difficult to find nature without any man made features and so
National Parks were opened to protect wildlife and nature.
One thing that Ansel Adams does with his photographs is that he portrays
meaning and gives us something to think about. This is another one of Adams
photographs. This landscape photograph also has a theme of nature, however
for me personally when i first looked at it it gave me the feeling of peace and
relaxation. I could see this through the light underneath the dark sky, as
though the grave yard and the sky had a connection of peacefulness. Looking
at this picture several more times it also has a very eery feeling due to again
the graveyard and the dark sky. Whichever way you look at this photograph it
still has the idea of nature.