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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing. Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. Adams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Early life Birth Adams was born in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray. He was named after his uncle, Ansel Easton. His mother's family came from Baltimore, where his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business but lost his wealth investing in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from the north of Ireland during the early 19th century. His paternal grandfather founded a very prosperous lumber business that his father later managed. Later in life, Adams condemned the industry his grandfather worked in for cutting down many of the redwood forests. Early childhood One of Adams's earliest memories was watching the smoke from the fires caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Then four years old, Adams was uninjured in the initial shaking but was tossed face-first into a garden wall during an aftershock three hours later, breaking and scarring his nose. A doctor recommended that his nose be reset once he reached maturity, but it remained crooked and necessitated mouth breathing for the rest of his life. In 1907, his family moved 2 miles (3 km) west to a new home near the Seacliff neighborhood of San Francisco, just south of the Presidio Army Base. The home had a "splendid view" of the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands. Adams was a hyperactive child and prone to frequent sickness and hypochondria. He had few friends, but his family home and surroundings on the heights facing the Golden Gate provided ample childhood activities. He had little patience for games or sports; but he enjoyed the beauty of nature from an early age, collecting bugs and exploring Lobos Creek all the way to Baker Beach and the sea cliffs leading to Lands End, "San Francisco's wildest and rockiest coast, a place strewn with shipwrecks and rife with landslides." Early education Adams's father had a three-inch telescope, and they enthusiastically shared the hobby of astronomy, visiting the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton together. His father later served as the paid secretary-treasurer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, from 1925 to 1950. Charles Adams's business suffered large financial losses after the death of his father in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907. Some of the loss was due to his uncle Ansel Easton and Cedric Wright's father George secretly having sold their shares of the company, "knowingly providing the controlling interest" to the Hawaiian Sugar Trust for a large amount of money. By 1912, the family's standard of living had dropped sharply. Adams was dismissed from several private schools for being restless and inattentive, so when he was 12, his father decided to remove him from school. For the next two years he was educated by private tutors, his aunt Mary, and his father. Mary was a devotee of Robert G. Ingersoll, a 19th-century agnostic and women's suffrage advocate, so Ingersoll's teachings were important to his upbringing. During the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915, his father insisted that he spend part of each day studying the exhibits as part of his education. He eventually resumed, and completed, his formal education by attending the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School, graduating from the eighth grade on June 8, 1917. During his later years, he displayed his diploma in the guest bathroom of his home. His father raised him to follow the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson: to live a modest, moral life guided by a social responsibility to man and nature. Adams had a loving relationship with his father, but he had a distant relationship with his mother, who did not approve of his interest in photography. The day after her death in 1950, Ansel had a dispute with the undertaker when choosing the casket in which to bury her. He chose the cheapest in the room, a $260 coffin that seemed the least he could purchase without doing the job himself. The undertaker remarked, "Have you no respect for the dead?" Adams replied, "One more crack like that and I will take Mama elsewhere." Youth Adams became interested in playing the piano at age 12 after hearing his 16-year-old neighbor Henry Cowell play on the Adams' piano, and he taught himself to play and read music. Cowell, who later became a well-known avant-garde composer, gave Adams some lessons. Over the next decade, three music teachers pushed him to develop technique and discipline, and he became determined to pursue a career as a classical pianist. Adams first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916 with his family. He wrote of his first view of the valley: "the splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious.... One wonder after another descended upon us.... There was light everywhere.... A new era began for me." His father gave him his first camera during that stay, an Eastman Kodak Brownie box camera, and he took his first photographs with his "usual hyperactive enthusiasm". He returned to Yosemite on his own the next year with better cameras and a tripod. During the winters of 1917 and 1918, he learned basic darkroom technique while working part-time for a San Francisco photograph finisher. Adams contracted the Spanish flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, from which he needed several weeks to recuperate. He read a book about lepers and became obsessed with cleanliness; he was afraid to touch anything withou.... Discover the P R Adams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular P R Adams books.
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Through Infinite Realms
P R AdamsHe agreed to one last job, and that job is going to kill him. After rescuing his quarry, Riyun thought they would be heading back to their home dimension. Instead, he finds himself...
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Dawn Fire
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Over Burning Sands
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Through Burning Sands
P R AdamsDanger is the only constant. Reggie Lee is a survivor, fending off genetically engineered nightmares and raving lunatics. Now all he wants is a chance to raise his son in peace. Bu...
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Null Point
P R AdamsA mysterious weapon. Synthetic humans. Corporate espionage. Stefan Mendoza is running out of time, running out of money, and running out of luck. Wherever he turns, people try to k...
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Hard Burn
P R AdamsThey tried to kill him, now there’s nowhere to hide. As an assassin, Stefan Mendoza learned to never trust anyone, not even his employer. Now he’s learning that lesson all over aga...
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Shadow Talk
P R AdamsBetrayal awaits in the shadows. After surviving a sneak attack by the Azoren Federation, Captain Faith Benson must forge an alliance with the Gulmar Union. But before she can conne...
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Dire Straits
P R AdamsOne mistake can mark you for a lifetime. Matthias “Go” Goonetilleke is a detective with exceptional instincts, but he always screws up the deal in the end. Now hunted by powerful e...
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Shadow Pawn
P R AdamsWhat would you do to save your people? Captain Faith Benson brought the most powerful task force ever assembled into Gulmar space to form an alliance against their mutual enemies, ...
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The Dark Realm
P R AdamsThere’s no escaping the fire. Riyun Molliro was a simple mercenary, too honorable for a corrupt world and desperate for work. A longshot job to bring home a powerful executive’s da...
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The Rimes Trilogy Boxed Set
P R AdamsHow does an honorable man survive in a corrupt world? Jack Rimes is a good person caught up in a grim and dark future where galaxyspanning corporations exert terrible influence ove...
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Mirror of Souls
P R AdamsIn a world of infinite possibilities, even your worst enemy isn’t certain. The search for their kidnapped target has taken Riyun’s mercenary team to a world of magic and dragons an...
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Forge of Empire
P R AdamsEmpires are forged in fire and quenched by blood. Avery Shetty joined the Marines to pay for his engineering degree. It meant leaving behind the woman of his dreams. Now it might m...
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Shadow Strike
P R AdamsHero or criminal? After completing another impossible mission, Commander Faith Benson heads home to Kedraal, uncertain of her fate. With no idea who really ordered her into enemy t...
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On Burning Sands
P R AdamsWheels within wheels. Rescuing the survivors of Nellis Station should have been the end of Reggie Lee’s efforts. It’s only the beginning. Just as he finds the last of his people a ...
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Call of Destiny
P R AdamsSome things are better left alone. When Riyun Molliro stops a superior from committing war crimes, it comes at a cost: his career. With opportunities running out, it looks like tha...
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Sudden Strike
P R AdamsOperation Noble Defense was supposed to establish the Kedraalian Republic as a new superpower in the galaxy. It failed. When the front line collapses, Private Avery Shetty finds hi...
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Gone Dark
P R AdamsWounded. Alone. Wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Stefan Mendoza is a broken man. The last thing he cares about now is revenge against the people who betrayed him. All he wants...
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Shadow Fall
P R AdamsIt's too late to turn back. When Captain Faith Benson accepts the aid of the Azoren Federation, she compromises the integrity of her task force. The leader of the Azoren ships prov...
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To Burning Sands
P R AdamsEveryone has a limit. Reggie Lee believes in peace and cooperation, in working toward the greater good. He prefers compromise to violence. Then they burned down his home and took h...
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Desperate Measures
P R AdamsWhen the greatest manhunt ends, will the hunter prevail or the hunted? Every bounty hunter dreams of the big payday. Benji is no different. After decades living behind masks and li...
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Into Twilight
P R AdamsHe does the government’s dirty work. When he’s doublecrossed by one of his own, he’ll stop at nothing to take out the trash. Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’...
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The Burning Sands Trilogy Omnibus
P R AdamsSometimes, waking is worse than the nightmare. Earth is dying, and humanity’s only hope of survival will be somewhere among the stars. When Reggie Lee joins defense contractor Fron...
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Last Shadow
P R AdamsDeath hides in the shadows. Following a sneak attack by the Azoren Federation, Captain Faith Benson seeks an alliance to save the Kedraalian Republic. But the threat is worse than ...
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Inside Burning Sands
P R AdamsWhen the world burned, the lucky ones died. Major Gabby Alonso was as broken as her world, but she wouldn't let anything stop her. Through determination and strength, she rose to l...
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The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy Boxed Set
P R AdamsAssassin. Cyborg. Avenger. Stefan Mendoza spent his life doing the government’s dirty work until he was doublecrossed by one of his own. When a traitor betrays Mendoza's blackops t...
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The Lancers Books 1-3 Omnibus
P R AdamsBounty hunters, detectives, mercenariespeople with a particular set of skills. Four people with secrets to keep, each drawn to the fringes of human space. Three tales of mystery an...
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End State
P R AdamsIn espionage, there are only two types of agents: active and dead. Stefan Mendoza tried to walk away from the business, but the Agency wouldn't let him. The Metacorporate Initiativ...
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Dark Secrets
P R AdamsSecrets and lies can get you killed. Benji Chan is a Gridhound, an elite hacker. In fact, she’s the best hacker ever known. And she’s put together an expert team of Lancersbounty h...
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Valley of Death
P R AdamsHold the high ground, win the conflict. An illegal mercenary force buildup on an unoccupied planet tips Lonny Meyers off to a potential problem ideal for the ERF. Despite delays in...
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Deadly Game
P R AdamsNo problem has ever been too big for Mariana. Until now. When religious fanatics take control of a town on a frontier colony world, Mariana’s team of Lancers must try to rescue the...
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Breakout
P R AdamsThe race has been run, and now comes a new struggle. Private Avery Shetty always saw war as horrific, but the life of the prisoner proves even worse. Torture, abuse, terrorthe Oran...
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Turning Point
P R AdamsThey won the Metacorporate War. Now comes the hard part: Capture or kill the architect of the war. After the death of the Elite Response Force's popular leader, Captain Lonny Meyer...
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War for Burning Sands
P R AdamsSometimes war is the only option. Major Gabby Alonso spent her entire life battling adversity. For her final mission, she vowed to save the world from selfdestruction or die trying...
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Dread Empire
P R AdamsTo stand against the empire is certain death, but turning away is worse. Just as Riyun’s quest to find the woman who has eluded his team ends, everything is turned upside down. In ...
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Beneath Burning Sands
P R AdamsEarth is dying and humanity's only hope of survival will be somewhere among the stars. Ambitious MBA graduate Reggie Lee thought defense contractor Frontierza was a perfect fit for...
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Split Image
P R AdamsHe’s a fish out of water, but he still has a bite. Stefan Mendoza was the world’s deadliest assassin. When he’s forced out of retirement by disaster, the only work he can find is w...
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Shadow Moves
P R AdamsOne wrong move means interstellar war. Faith Benson was a distinguished officer heading for a promising career. Then came her assignment to the Pandora. A posting aboard a searchan...
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Chariot Bright
P R AdamsThe war for survival has begun. To destroy the inhuman AI bent on genocide, Lonny Meyers must eradicate all copies simultaneously. Fail, and all the death and destruction suffered ...
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Across Burning Sands
P R AdamsSurviving fifty years in suspended animation was the easy part. Waking to a new world could very well be Reggie Lee's death. On this tortured earth, humanity is gone, wiped out by ...
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Domino Effect
P R AdamsAn unexplained death. A controversial hero. A world coming apart. All Benji ever wanted was the chance to be who she used to be. Now she can’t outrun the lies and manipulation anym...
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Estate of Edward R. Brady v. Adams
Supreme Court Of CaliforniaMore than 11 years after the intestate distribution of decedent's estate petitioner, a sister, commenced this proceeding to require the surviving administrator of the estate to pro...
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Jungle Dark
P R AdamsDeath waits in the dark. Lonny Meyers has always lived on the edge. Now he faces his most dangerous enemy: a rogue AI. When a new mission takes him on a hunt deep into the alien la...
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First Shadow
P R AdamsHumanity has escaped the dead Earth, but can they escape their dark flaws? Distinguished officer Faith Benson seemed headed for a promising career in the Kedraalian Republic Navy. ...
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Shadow Play
P R AdamsEscaping death should have been the final act of Commander Faith Benson’s career. Resuscitation technology makes death temporary for essential personnel, and after her runin with A...
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Warlords of Dust
P R AdamsHe thought wizards and dragons were the deadliest threat he could face. He was wrong. Like any good mercenary, Riyun Molliro never quits a contract. But his agreement to locate a p...
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Beyond Burning Sands
P R AdamsThe deadliest hunter is human. Reggie Lee has survived the nightmarish, genetically engineered horrors of CroMagnons and sharpteeth that ruled the ruins of Las Vegas. Now he must f...
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Deep Descent
P R AdamsChanda has a particular set of skills. She needs money, and the only way she can make it is to become a bounty huntera freelancer. Lancer for short. And the big money? That’s out i...
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Estate of Edward R. Brady v. Adams
Supreme Court Of CaliforniaMore than 11 years after the intestate distribution of decedents estate petitioner, a sister, commenced this proceeding to require the surviving administrator of the estate to prod...
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The Burning Sands Trilogy 2 Omnibus
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