Ian Plant

The great barrier islands of the Atlantic coast, which stretch from Cape Cod south to Florida, present many opportunities to outdoor...

If there’s anything better than nature, it is nature reflected—you essentially get two for the price of one! I’m always on the lookout...

I know a lot of photographers who are constantly on the hunt for “trophy shots.” They search high and low...

Nature is a chaotic place. Our job as photographers is to create order out of chaos, to simplify and reduce things...

Autumn is fast approaching, faster this year (it seems) than normal. Time to gear up for fall foliage photography! I’ve...

For the third post in my night photography series, I’d like to share an image taken in the Wahweap area...

I recently spent two weeks in Mt. Rainier National Park to photograph wildflowers and mountain landscapes. The summer bloom came...

I can’t get enough of back-lighting. Back-lighting can be used to create magical images (especially at sunrise or sunset when...

In the first part of my series about night photography, I presented a landscape image taken at night using flash to...

The dark of night is the closest thing to a blank canvas that we as photographers ever get. It is...

  “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Personally, I find this expression somewhat trite, and perhaps a bit depressing—although suffering must sometimes be...

  Few people outside of the mid-Atlantic know about Smith Island—for that matter, few enough people living in the area...

Summer is the time for storms. Too often, photographers pack up when they see inclement weather on the horizon, which...

I just got back from two weeks of shooting the Grand Tetons, Wind River Mountains, and Yellowstone National Park in...

When you were young, your mother probably told you to never stare into the sun. What is often good advice...

I’m currently shooting in the Tetons, and this morning I passed a scene I photographed a few months prior during...

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” —Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1957 Nature’s magical...

We all have them, though we don’t show them to people. Instead, we keep them shamefully tucked away, hidden in...

Nature photography has a unique power to move people. The best nature photographs use composition to transport viewers into a scene, giving...

Ever see a picture and wonder how the photographer made the image? Unfortunately, more often than not, mum’s the word....