We associate Yosemite with the photographs of Ansel Adams, who acknowledged Watkins as one of “the great Western photographers,” but it was Watkins who first turned Half Dome, Cathedral Rocks ...

(KFSN) -- A young photographer is spending his time traveling around the western United States and capturing stunning landscape photos, including one that got a lot of attention at Yosemite ...

Stream and trees with mountains in background, Yosemite ... to chart the Western territories included a professional photgrapher on staff. Invented in 1839, photography then was a new technology.

Photographer Jim Fitzgerald chronicles the ... Going back to his boyhood on camping trips with his parents in Yosemite, Fitzgerald recalls, “The trees many many years ago took root in my heart ...

In the summer of 1861, a 35-year-old photographer ... the Yosemite National Park. The relatively new technology of photography captivated audiences, and Watkins' landscapes depicting the Western ...