Dead Tree Resting Place Yosemite Baby Onesie

Blake Richards of Blake Richards photography Blake Fine Art 510 967-0687 has been a Bay Area photographer for over 30 years. He obtained an AA in Photography from DeAnza College where he submitted some of his photos for consideration and was accepted into a one-week course with Ansel Adams at Yosemite. It was great. It was very intense- every minute you were doing something. We started early in the morning and went to about 11 every night, he says. Blake says that the most valuable thing he learned from Adams was the ability to see light. The best thing to be a good photographer is to have a heightened awareness, says Blake, A little hair sticking out, the angle of someones head- you always have to think. When Im photographing someone,...