International
International Adventure & Travel Photography
These travel photo essays will transport you to the far reaches of the globe. View images from around the world and learn about the landscapes and cultures experienced by other adventure photographers.
Chasing Dolphins Down The Amazon
National Geographic photographer Kevin Schafer takes a wild underwater adventure with a rare pod of cetaceans in South America
 Let me be clear: I’m not a scuba diver. Although I’ve happily snorkeled all my life, I’ve always shied away from “serious” diving. This begs the question: How does a nondiver end up shooting an underwater story for National Geographic?
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A Journey To India
OP columnist William Neill’s recent trek on the subcontinent is the story of modern adventure travel
 Traveling to foreign locations is cause for great excitement for most photographers, as it is for me each time I visit the colorful country of India.
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The Faces Of Peru
More than just the iconic Machu Picchu, Peru is a wealth of landscape, wildlife and cultural photographic opportunities
 I’m perched precariously on a ledge looking over stone ruins 30 feet below when the winds and the rains suddenly let up, sun shafts penetrating the clearing clouds, and somebody gives me a strong shove from behind.
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Time For Elephants
A Kenyan resident for nearly 30 years, Karl Ammann has enjoyed a long association with elephants combined with an unparalleled knowledge of the game parks. A wealth of images is the by-product.
 Time always has been the most overlooked or underexposed factor in wildlife photography. So much is made out of capturing the peak action or the decisive moment that little lip service is given to the all-important hours of planning, waiting and observing.
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The Quest For Tigers
Delving into India’s wilder side, expedition leaders Susi Allison-Lama and Butch Lama give their perspective from the field on where to find and photograph the Royal Bengal tiger
 Their deep, rumbling roars echo through the verdant jungles where they hunt. Massive predatory machines that stalk silently and strike ferociously, they sit at the top of the complex food chain as dominant apex predators keeping the ecosystem in balance. For generations, tigers have captured the allure and imagination of people. Like all of the big cats, however, these magnificent predators are facing an uncertain future. With ever-shrinking habitat and the need to venture further afield to find their prey, the pressures on the world’s tiger populations could become too much for the animals to bear.
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Caught In The Act
An unprecedented experiment in time-lapse photography reveals how quickly glaciers are melting around the world
 On glaciers across the northern hemisphere, a couple dozen solar-powered cameras are shooting once an hour for every daylight hour, capturing the ice as it melts in real time. This is a phenomenon often discussed but rarely seen, and perhaps never before in this way. When culled together, these hour-to-hour frames compose dramatic time-lapse image sequences showing that glaciers everywhere are disappearing fast.
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On The Edge
Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge series on public television has brought the intrepid nature photographer to some of the most rare and exotic places and cultures in the world
 I began exploring the world as a kid in West Seattle, mounting expeditions into the woods behind my parents’ house.
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The Ocean & The Desert
There are some surprising similarities for photographers who shoot in these disparate environments
 At first glance, there appears to be little in common between the open sea and the desert—wet, salty and always in motion versus dry, dusty and slow to change.
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Concepts Of Nature
Andy Rouse is among the top wildlife photographers in the world. His new book takes readers into his overall thinking and approach to photography.
 Award-winning British photographer Andy Rouse discusses his approach to photography in his recent book Concepts of Nature: A Wildlife Photographer’s Art.
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