The first full day of our visit to the Yosemite National Park in California happened to be Independence Day, the 4th of July 2010, as part of our tour of the great American South-West. Given the day, we were not alone there, but my mind was more preoccupied with the photographic work of Ansel Adams, who died in 1984, the one photographer who so truly captured the majesty of Yosemite during his sixty-year career. As a humble homage to the Master, I decided to spend this day shooting only in black-and-white.

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With fellow photographer Fred Arthur, Adams developed the Zone System for ensuring accurate exposures and contrast control in the final print. Based on his commitment to preserving and protecting the natural world, one of his earliest publications helped to make a vital contribution towards convincing Congress that Sequoia Canyon should become a National Park.

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Above all, after a lifetime of photography, much of it in Yosemite, he produced a legacy for us of some of the finest monochrome landscape images ever created.

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