George Fiske

He apprenticed under Charles L. Weed and worked with Carleton E. Watkins, both early Yosemite National Park photographers.

Fiske and his wife moved to Yosemite in 1879 and lived there until he committed suicide in 1918.

[3] Years later, when photographer Ansel Adams was a boy, his Aunt Mary gave him a copy of James M. Hutchings, In the Heart of the Sierras (1888) when he was sick.

The book piqued his interest enough to persuade his parents to vacation in Yosemite National Park in 1916.

After Fiske's death, his remaining negatives were acquired by the Yosemite Park Company and stored neglected in a sawmill attic, which burned in 1943.