About 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.