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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Program at the University of Rhode Island at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Honors Projects by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EAST OF ADAMS Graflex, Speed Graphics 4x5 Camera Autumn Walter- Communication Studies Ansel Adams Sponsor: Zoey Stites- Fine Arts The Graflex brand has a strong reputation Adams worked with the Sierra Club to for their camera’s sturdiness and continual document Americas wilderness in an effort to function under adverse conditions. Locations In Acadia (to Shoot Once Travel is Safe) communicate with the public what they are at risk of losing. The Speed Graphics camera was commonly used by press photographers in the 1940s. - Cadillac Mountain Cadillac Mountain rises 1530 feet high and is the highest point on the US eastern Adams’ work in activism began when the seaboard. The top of Cadillac is easily accessible both by a 3.5 mile road or a 5.7 mile Sierra Club and he published a book of his Large format, 4x5 film size creates photographs entitled The John Muir Trail in incredibly detailed negatives making it easy round trip hike. Cadillac offers views of Eagle lake, the Bubbles, Bar Harbor, Frenchman to scale to an enlarged size. 1938 to help lobby Congress to create Kings Bay, Porcupine Islands, Cranberry Isles, and Blue Hill overlook. These views are made Canyon National Park in California. Its possible by the stark lack of trees on the mountain top due to high winds, freezing borders were passed into law in 1940. Focusing with the ground glass, an opaque temperatures, and rapid erosion that only allow for short rugged plants to survive. glass on the back of the camera that when light passes though shows the inverse of In 1941, Adams was approached by Harold the potential image, allows for more - Beaver Dam Pond Ickes, the Secretary of the Department of the accurate focusing. This pond is host to a large beaver population with a visible dam located on the far side Interior, to photograph national parks. The of the pond. By 1900, beavers had been exterminated within Mount Desert Island by planned images were to be printed in mural The cameras double bellows, extension trappers, but were reintroduced by George Dorr in 1920 and the population has been size and mounted to the walls of the aids, help with focusing on objects at a thriving ever since. Department of the Interior building in wide range of distance and size. Washington D.C. - Acadia Mountain Acadia National Park Located on the western peninsula on Mount Desert Island, Acadia Mountain overlooks Adams had a personal relationship with the National Park Service, developed through the Somes Sound, and offers views of the fjard and southern lying islands. The top of the thousands of letters written about wilderness Congressional approval was given to become a mountain is only accessible via a 2.6 round trip hiking trail. Hiking time is about 2 hours management. He believed that all people had national park during World War I, orchestrated covering a 581 foot elevation change. The base of the mount has trails that leads to the a right to the wilderness, and encouraged by the Parks first superintendent George Dorr. Man o’ War Brook waterfall where ships would pull up to replenish their water supplies. them to experience it on an intellectual and emotional level. February 26, 1919 Lafayette National Park was - Beaches created on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Later Acadia National Park is located along the coast and hosts several ocean landmarks. renamed to Acadia National Park in 1929 as a Monument Cove is a small cove sheltered by pine trees which protect it from further condition of a large portion of land donation. erosion. Erosion has weathered away the steep cliffs leaving behind tall stone monuments. Waves have removed the sand leaving the beach comprised of just rocks. Acadia was the first national park established The Otter Cliffs are vertical cliffs that rise over 110 feet above the ocean. These cliffs are east of the Mississippi and entirely donated one of the only places on the eastern seaboard where you're able to rock climb directly from privately owned land. above the ocean.

The park contains 125 miles of hiking trails - Beehive along with 45 miles of carriage roads, and One of the most popular trails in the park, the Beehive trail is a 1.6 mile round trip hike several picturesque drives. that takes about 2 hours. The elevation change is 520 feet. This hike can be strenuous as a part of the hike includes iron rung ladders going up portions of the cliff. At the top of Along with the parks 24 mountain peaks, Acadia My personal Graflex, Speed Graphics 4x5 camera, the trail sits the Bowl, a small pond located in the granite of the mountain. For those is one of the most diverse national parks in sitting on top of negative carriers unable to hike the strenuous Beehive, the the easier Bowl Trail wraps around the America. The park is home to over 50 species of backside of the mountain. Literature Cited mammals, 320 species of birds, 30 tree species, CCP. “Ansel Adams: Center for Creative Photography.” Center for Creative and 1000 species of flowering plants. It is one of Photography, 2019, https://ccp.arizona.edu/artists/ansel-adams. Wilderness, to me at least, is a 'Mystique’; a valid, intangible, non-materialistic a few places in the world with such natural “ Kaiser, James. ACADIA: the Complete Guide. 5th ed., DESTINATION PRESS, 2019. diversity packed into less than 48,000 acres experience. The right to experience is a fundamental right, just as the right to Stillman, Andrea G., editor. Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from possess, the right to believe or the right to work and the right to security. Americas Wild Places. Little, Brown and Comp., 2010. The Gulf of Maine is one of the most productive ” -Ansel Adams The 3 1/4x4 1/4 and 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphics Instruction and Reference ecosystems in the world due to cold nutrient Manual. The 3 1/4x4 1/4 and 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphics Instruction and lecture at the Yale school of Forestry Reference Manual, Graflex, Inc. . rich water and multiple circulation patterns and Environmental Studies, 1970 providing an equally as diverse marine Acknowledgements ecosystem as the terrestrial ecosystem. Tyler Pelltier- Photo assistant