Big Sur, Point Lobos, and Cannery Row: Digital Photography by Charles Cramer

Charles Cramer creates and teaches landscape photography using techniques he learned from the California nature photographer Ansel Adams, Steinbeck’s exact contemporary. Like Ansel Adams, he trained as a concert pianist before turning to landscape photography—first at San Jose State University, then at the Eastman School of Music—and applies these skills as a Bay Area recitalist and music director for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Santa Clara. He was twice selected by the National Park Service to be artist-in-residence at Yosemite and has taught digital imaging at various venues, including Yosemite’s Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops. His distinctive landscape photography has appeared in major photo magazines, in two books—Landscape: The World’s Top Photographers and First Light: Five Photographers Explore Yosemite’s Wilderness—and in a solo exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel.