Ian Plant is a full-time professional nature photographer, writer, and adventurer, he has been photographing our natural world for almost twenty years. Ian travels the world in order to find rare convergences of light, composition, mood, and moment, looking to transcend mere scenery to produce a compelling view of his nature subjects.

Ian Plant is going to show you the art of composition today, he has recently wrote an eBook called “Visual Flow – Mastering the Art of Composition”

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Visual Flow

 The Snake River

 Sunset beams over Grand Teton

The Firehole

 Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park.

The Chase

An Alaskan brown bear closes in on its prey…

The Beast

Demonic intervention? Naw, just a bison rolling around in some dirt. I positioned myself to ensure that the dust was backlit by the setting sun. When the bison lifted its head high, I knew I had the moment I was waiting for.

Shadows and Sand

Simplicity revealed at the intersection of light and shadow, Death Valley National Park, California.

Na Hearadh

Sunset off the coast of Scotland, Isle of Harris.

 Morning Call

A red-winged blackbird calls on a cold wintry day.

Light is Life

I got creative with lens flare for this image of backlit flowers in a field high on Mazama Ridge, Mt. Rainier National Park. The sun was setting just above the image frame, creating lens flare at the top of the photo. Careful positioning allowed me to place the flare above the lone tree in the meadow.

Lenga Dance

Lenga tree in Patagonia. To learn more about the story behind this image, visit my blog: http://www.ianplant.com/blog/2012/05/01/meat-and-potatoes/

Golden Days

 An old waterman plies his trade on te Chesapeake Bay.

Fires of Dawn

Morning mist in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Eye of the North

A sea stack of the Scottish coast.

 Dreamscape

A long exposure at twilight, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee/North Carolina.

Devil’s Twilight

I popped a flash with a peach-colored gel to light the rock formations during a 30-second exposure at twilight. Devil’s Garden, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Devil’s Eye

Inside a Lake Superior sea cave, Devils Island, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin.

 Winter Grip

Icy fingers reach for the sun’s warmth, Lake Michigan.