Ansel Adams/Museum of Fine Arts, The Lane Collection Contemporary photographers, on the other hand, are more likely to include evidence of a human presence, playing up that contrast ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — “Great shot,” my friend said. “Yeah, my Canon G10 is really smart.” After two years of mumbling, “Shutter speed, ISO -- I don’t know,” as I put my camera ...

Nothing was left to chance when the Carters posed on Nov. 6, 1979, in the East Room of the White House. The artist, Ansel Adams, carefully arranged each visual element for maximum effect.

“Ansel Adams in Our Time,” the title of the new exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, suggests that his outdoor photographs, with ionic images of Yosemite, speak to us in some new way.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- When famed photographer Ansel Adams captured many of his iconic images, western landscapes like Yosemite were both remote and still pristine. And for much of his career, he ...