Of all the camera-wielding luminaries who"ve snapped this eastward view of Yosemite Valley, few can hold a "candela" to Ansel Adams, born this day in 1902. The legendary photographer of Western landscapes was given his first camera here in Yosemite as a boy. The national park was his favorite place in the world, and he returned every year for the rest of his life.
An enduring vision
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia
-
Russell lupines, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
-
Happy Fathers Day!
-
Christmas market at Belvedere Palace in Vienna
-
International Tea Day
-
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
-
Pollinators: not to be sneezed at
-
Freeze frame
-
Labor Day
-
Up in the Highlands
-
The Guggenheim Bilbao turns 25
-
Happy New Years Eve!
-
Adorable activism
-
Isla del Pescado on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
-
Rosa Parks Day
-
Lobster tales
-
Greetings from Asbury Park
-
Vietnam’s new bridge deserves a big hand
-
Merry Christmas!
-
A center of antiquity on the Mediterranean
-
Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
-
Cloudy with a chance of enlightenment
-
Into the woods
-
Landscape Architecture Month
-
Ski touring in Austria
-
Happy Pi Day!
-
Nazaré Lighthouse
-
Lavender field, Hertfordshire, England
-
A tower of remembrance
-
We have liftoff!