Ansel Adams is a photographer born in San Fransisco in 1902. Adams became a technical master at what he did, many other famous photographers often came to him seeking advice. The ambitious photographer created the "highly complex zone system". Adams produces ten separate manuals on technical skills in photography. Adams mostly photographed landscapes in the west. Scaling from a large variety of subjects from churches, architecture, florals, mountains, people,m and a wide variety of nature. Adams passed away in 1984 leaving a Lasting Legacy. Adams states, "You don't take a photograph, you make it."