Ansel Adam's Yosemite

I bring it up for two reasons, one I need to look at letters instead of numbers for a bit, and two because his photos are littered in buildings across campus. I have seen them often and not thought much of them, they are attractive and eye catching, I've stopped and looked at a couple but more often than not I'm involved in my thoughts and en route to somewhere else. It was only today that I happened to been studying in the Rawls building; a quiet place, with the open architecture one would find in a computer applied to a "new age" building. However Rawls is part of the Krannert School of Management where they have, out in the open, free copies of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for the taking, I usually pick up the WSJ and glance at whatever shock and awe picture the NYT has determined to stain its front page. However, today the travel section of the NYT had been removed from the Sunday edition and was sitting on a chair next to the rack where the papers are kept in the margin I noticed the name Ansel Adams. I did not think of it immediately, but was stirred and once I turned to the page, remembered instantly. I had known nothing about this man except the prints I had seen and his name written in bold block letters along the bottom of the prints, upon reading this piece (online version found here) I soon had a new found respect for his work, and realized someone had actually put thought into the interior aesthetics of the buildings on campus, imagine walking into the Electrical Engineering building and seeing "Bridalveil Fall" on the wall; I'm sure some EE majors feel like they are heading down that fall at times. All in all they are refreshing scenery in buildings where students can easily drown in the knowledge required for their major and forget whats out THERE, Yosemite is truly a national treasure.