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Ansel Adams was born into a wealthy family in San Francisco in 1902. He was first trained as a boy to be a concert pianist and pursued this career for much of his life. He became interested in photography in 1916 when his family went on a vacation to Yosemite National Park. He had a brownie box camera, recently invented by George Eastman, making it possible for amateur photographers to fill a roll of film, then send the camera in and have their film developed and the camera reloaded. This started a life long journey. After he became more and more serious about his photography, he began mingling with other photographers and developed his own style. His work began to develop a sharp focus that became his trademark. He developed a system of developing his pictures called ‘the zone system’. In the zone system , he used a method in which he would divide the print into ten different zones with different gradations of light, going from black to white. This way, he could see how long to expose a negative to a print to achieve maximu