Ansel Adams is a famous artist who knows how to use the elements of art in his pictures. He used shape with the mountains he didn’t use much color but black and white in his pictures it’s a low intensity which means its cool. The mountain is the point that brings the whole picture together. The tree represents the line in the picture. You cant really see or understand the texture but you should no its hard and rocky. it takes up most of the space of the picture and its perspective is a two point vanishing point. Its value makes it unique the value of snow and a mountain mean so much more than you think they do in this picture. Its contrast is beyond than just a point on the picture. I think this picture says a whole lot more than just a mountain and snow and trees it has a meaning that you have to understand with the elements of art its so much more and that’s the point you don’t know why it just makes it that way.