Research Guides: Ansel Adams and Nature Photography: Helpful Resources

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Opening Presentation
This Power Point presentation provides background information on Ansel Adams.

Persuasive Essay Map
Online interactive template to help you build a persuasive essay

Expository Writing Graphic Organizer
Printable template for a 5 paragraph expository essay

Haiku Writing Guide
Interactive guide to help you write a haiku poem
Free Verse Poem Generator
Need help writing a poem? Use the poem generator as a guide

Rule of Thirds Photograph Analysis
Use the 7 step guide to analyze a photograph using the Rule of Thirds
Photo Critique
Photo critique guide to help you interpret photographs.

Artist Charles Bowden's Blog
Chuck Bowden is referenced in Terry Tempest William's The Hour of Land. This link will take you to his blog that you may want to use as a reference point when developing your own blog.

Color Reflection Essay Guide
Listen/Read the "Big Bend" Chapter from Terry Tempest Williams The Hour of Land and record color imagery that you could use in your own writing.
Landscape Photography

QT Loung
From the photographer: I am mostly known for my work on the National Parks. However, unlike many photographers, I do not want to specialize. Instead, I prefer to continue photographing anything that interests me. Initially, I had to be in awe of my environment to be compelled to photograph, which is why I concentrated so much on natural wonders. Although they are still a primary source of inspiration, I am now as interested in the human and culturage heritage of the planet, as well as in the contemporary world. One characteristic of my work, though, is that I go out in the world to make discoveries, as opposed to creating images in the studio, or photographing staged events.

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Call Number: 508.75 DIL
ISBN: 9780061233326
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
Call Number: 814 DIL
ISBN: 9780062432971
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Call Number: FIC ABB
ISBN: 9780816510573
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
Edward Abbey's account of two summers spent in southeastern Utah's canyonlands is surely one of the most enduring works of contemporary American nature writing. In it he tells of his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, of his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and of his distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase visitation to the park. "I confess to being a nature lover," admits Abbey more than thirty years after his sojourn in the wilderness.
In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World by Eliot Porter; Henry Thoreau
Call Number: 818 THO
ISBN: 9781934429730
Publication Date: 2012-11-15
In 1962, photographer Eliot Porter and the Sierra Club founder, David Brower, published this bestselling, and now long-out-of-print, classic monograph that has often been referred to as ""the very first coffee table book"" ever published. Porter masterfully created and paired his color photographs of the New England woods with passages by writer Henry David Thoreau.
Walden by Henry Thoreau (Illustrator); Bill McKibben (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780807014189
Publication Date: 1997-04-30
"Recent Thoreau scholarship has concentrated on Thoreau as prescient forest ecologist; McKibben - author of the End of Nature and one of our best-read social and environmental critics - places him firmly back in his role as cultural and spiritual seer.
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir; Scot Miller (Photographer); Galen Rowell (Introduction by)
Call Number: 508.79 MUI
ISBN: 9780618988518
Publication Date: 2011-03-10
Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. The book details Muir's first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a profound effect on his life.
Muir - Nature Writings by John Muir; William Cronon (Editor)
Call Number: BIO MUI
ISBN: 9781883011246
Publication Date: 1997-04-22
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson; Linda Lear (Introduction by); Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)
Call Number: 363.73 CAR
ISBN: 0618249060
Publication Date: 2002-10-22
The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.
Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Call Number: 814 EME
ISBN: 9780486469478
Publication Date: 2009-01-15
A soul-satisfying collection of 12 essays by the noted philosopher and poet who embraced independence, rejected conformity, and loved nature.
Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Elbert Hubbard (Editor)
Call Number: 814 EME
ISBN: 9781168802125
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Collective works of Ralph Waldo Emmerson.
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Larzer Ziff (Introduction by)
Call Number: 814 EME
ISBN: 014243762X
Publication Date: 2003-05-27
Emerson provides a world of nature, battered by the assaults of a burgeoning population but arrives at a flow to remind us of the spiritual elements of nature itself.
The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams
Call Number: 333.78 WIL
ISBN: 9780374280093
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year.
Red by Terry Tempest Williams
Call Number: 917.92 WIL
ISBN: 9780375725180
Publication Date: 2002-10-08
In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
Call Number: 362.1 WIL
ISBN: 9780679740247
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.

Ansel Adams and Nature Photography: Helpful Resources

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