Ansel Adams' Moon and Half Dome Ansel Adams is one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth-century. Moon and Half Dome is one of his many great works. Taken in 1960 in Yosemite National Park, California it is a very involving photograph. In Moon and Half Dome, Adams tries to induce a feeling of awe at nature's immense power and beauty in the viewer. The detail of the photograph brings out all the beauty of nature at its best. Due to the way the shadows fall on Half Dome, all the crevices and ledges are well defined, causing a very intricate, but chaotic, pattern of lines which can be seen as beautif