Ansel Adams' father gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie box camera, during a family vacation to Yosemite National Park in 1916. Ansel Adams often hiked with the Sierra Club, a conservation organization he joined in the 1920s. Took his photographs of Kings Canyon to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to persuade him to support the creation of a national park in the area. The project resulted in the book "Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail." His photograph "Moon and Half Dome" is one of his most famous works, depicting the moon rising above Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Ansel Adams achieved financial security in his late 70s, thanks to the sale of his prints and the success of his workshops and books. After his death, Ansel Adams was honored with exhibitions of his work, the naming of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Mount Ansel Adams, and the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 7. He showed...