The Ansel Adams Gallery is very pleased to celebrate Summer with our special Gift Collection. It features a selection of Ansel Adams gelatin silver prints and digitally-mastered replicas along with artwork by our Represented Artists and photography opportunities in Yosemite National Park.
Summer is a time to explore new and familiar places and make memories. Whether you are traveling to a bucket list destination or to a local park for your summer adventures, those moments will soon be stories to be told for generations. A few ways to keep those times fresh in our minds is to snap the perfect photograph of Glacier Point or to draw while gazing at the Grand Canyon.
Ansel Adams Photographing in Yosemite Valley by Ted Orland
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling flowing waters.”
-Ansel Adams
Few sights speak to the ruggedness and wildness of the American West like Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome from Glacier Point. Easily one of the park’s most famous landmarks, Half Dome rises some 4,737 feet above Yosemite Valley. The captivating sight of Half Dome attracts 50,000 intrepid hikers each year, each looking to summit the iconic peak.
“Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children… let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money… and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.”
– Ansel Adams
“The whole world is, to me, very much “alive” – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on – within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.”
– Ansel Adams
“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.”
– Ansel Adams
Gift a loved one (or yourself) a trip to Yosemite National Park, and join our gallery’s 70+ year tradition of photography education in the heart of Yosemite Valley.
Visit us at The Ansel Adams Gallery
Gift a loved one (or yourself) a trip to Yosemite National Park, and join our gallery’s 70+ year tradition of photography education in the heart of Yosemite Valley.
Yosemite Valley Half-Day Photography Classes
Join us for Yosemite Valley Photography Classes five days a week. Each of our four classes will teach you how to use your camera as well as incorporating Ansel Adams photographic techniques on making photographs and composition. All classes are $65~95 per person.
Yosemite Photography Guiding – Private Session
Experience Yosemite through a private guided tour designed to meet your photography dreams. Visit some of the most picturesque and hidden locations throughout the park, and capture them by camera at the time of day when lighting is at its best.
