On his first trip in June of 1916, Ansel Adams set off, armed with his trusty camera— soon to become his constant companion…

“I expect to be broke if I keep up the rate I am taking pictures,” the budding 14-year-old photographer wrote to his Aunt Mary in San Francisco that summer. I have taken 30 already.”

He kept shooting for almost seven decades, until his death at age 82 in 1984, by which time he had become a world-famous photographer and a powerful voice for wilderness!
(National Geographic)