For 10 points, name this American employee of the Sierra Club whose images such as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and many of Yosemite national park made him a pioneering nature photographer.
One collection by this artist had Albert Bender, his rich patron, add the nonsense word "Parmelian" to its title, a move to which this artist strenuously objected. This artist who showed the mouth of a certain bay in Golden Gate Before the Bridge depicted a doorless adobe gateway with a cross atop it in Church, Taos Pueblo. With Fred Archer, this male artist of Rose and Driftwood used a scale of EV levels from 0 to the Roman numeral X representing different brightnesses, called the Zone System. He showed the Merced River valley in Clearing Winter Storm and Monolith: The Face of Half-Dome. For 10 points, name this American employee of the Sierra Club whose images such as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and many of Yosemite national park made him a pioneering nature photographer.
One collection by this artist had Albert Bender, his rich patron, add the nonsense word "Parmelian" to its title, a move to which this artist strenuously objected.
Ansel Adams