Macmillan/McGraw-Hill: California Vistas 2007

Ansel Adams learned at home with help from tutors. As a child, he played in the sand dunes beyond the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. There he learned to love nature.

Adams was 14 when he first visited the great Yosemite National Park. He took his first pictures in Yosemite. When he was 25, Adams decided to spend his life taking photographs of nature.

Adams was a member of the Sierra Club. The club helps to preserve nature. Adams had his first photography show with help from the Sierra Club. Adams went on to take pictures of nature wherever he found it. His pictures made people love nature and want to protect it.

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Explore the story of a giant worlds fair in San Francisco in 1915. Adams visited the fair almost every day that year. The fair was called the Panama Pacific International Exposition.

The 1915 Exposition celebrated the building of the Panama Canal and the discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Explore a museum exhibit to find out more about how the canal was made.

Read excerpts from Ansel Adams? writing, written with Mary Street Alinder. Learn about his early memories of nature.

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