The Most Incredible Day OF Shooting Ever..

Following up my last post in which I celebrated the good times, I would like to relate my finest personal shooting experience. It was in the sandstone and brainrock of N Arizona. That is what I still call - The Most Incredible Day of Shooting Ever, or as I will refer to it in the future - TMIDOSE . We started shooting around 1:00 PM, and didn’t stop until the rainbows faded at sunset. In the final [...]

By Ian Plant | Dec 29, 2011
Posted in: Creativity |

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Swing for the Fences

After a week leading workshop clients to various locations in the California desert, I finally had some time to myself. I drove to Mono Lake and spent two days there waiting out a winter storm, hoping to get some interesting light. No luck—the storm broke well after sunrise, followed by clear skies which were forecast to last for days. With only two days left before my return flight home, I began to [...]

By Ian Plant | Jan 17, 2011
Posted in: Cathedral Gorge |

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Fortress of Solitude, Cathedral Gorge

Joe Rossbach and I are currently busy finishing up our next eBook, Five Landscape Challenges 2, which is the second in a series I launched last year. One of the images appearing in the book is from Cathedral Gorge State Park in Nevada. I took this image two years ago but have never before shared it with anyone. I’ve always liked this image, but I never published it because I figured that [...]

By Ian Plant | Jan 14, 2011
Posted in: Kofa Mountains |

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Kofa Mountains, Arizona

The Arizona desert in spring can be one of the most strikingly beautiful places on Earth. I spent several days in the superlative Kofa Mountains, looking for a combination of light and composition to tell the story of this fantastic place. One perfect morning, everything seemed to come together. The hardest thing about photography in the desert is crafting a simple, unified composition out of a chaotic jumble of elements. The Sonoran Desert [...]

By Ian Plant | Jun 25, 2010
Posted in: General |

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Desert Dreaming and Spring Cleaning

Some places haunt your dreams and stalk your living memories. I’ve spent a lot of time photographing the desert Southwest in the past few years, so much so that some people erroneously conclude that I live in Arizona (nope—Virginia). I’ve made hundreds of images, but truth be told I’m just beginning to scratch the surface. Every time I go I say to myself, “I’m sick of photographing the desert, this will be my last [...]