Ian Adams Environmental Photography

Ian Adams is an environmental photographer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, specializing in natural, rural, historical and garden photography. Since 1985, more than 4,500 of his color photographs have been published in books, posters, calendars, magazines and other publications. Ian has carried out garden photography assignments for landscape designers and for Fine Gardening, Family Circle, Horticulture, Midwest Living and Organic Gardening Magazines.

Ian's Wild & Scenic Ohio and Ohio Places calendars, both published by Browntrout Publishers, are in their 18th and 14th years, respectively, and an exhibit-format book, The Ohio Lands, also by Browntrout, is now in its second edition. Since 1989, Ohio Magazine has published several hundred of Ian's Ohio images, including more than 20 cover features. Another book of Ian's Ohio photographs, Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait, with text by Stephen Ostrander, was published by Browntrout in November, 2002. The US Postal Service selected one of Ian's rural Ohio photographs as the image for a new Ohio Bicentennial Postage Stamp, released in March, 2003.

Other published books include Akron: Written on the Hills by Frances McGovern, The Free-Spirited Garden and Midwest Landscape Design by the late Susan McClure, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens with co-photographer Barney Taxel and text by Steve Love, and The Holden Arboretum, with text by Steve Love. Ian recently completed The Art And Craft Of Garden Photography, for Timber Press, Our Ohio, for Voyageur Press, A Paradise In The City: Cleveland Botanical Garden for Orange Frazer Press), Cuyahoga Valley National Park for Twin Lights Publishers, and The Floridas for Browntrout. Backroads Of Ohio will be published by MBI/Voyageur Press in 2006.

Each year Ian drives more than 15,000 miles to 20-25 states in search of new images of gardens, natural areas, historic barns and mills, covered bridges, lighthouses, fishing villages, rural scenes, and historic sites for use in book projects, calendars, posters and postcards.

His digital Epson Ultrachrome inkjet prints, up to 40x50-inches, are included in many private and corporate collections.

Ian's state-of-the-art equipment and printing process include such cameras as the Fuji GX680 and the Nikon D2X digital camera as well as the Epson Stylus Pro 9800 color inkjet printer.

Ian has also conducted more than 120 workshops and seminars throughout Nortyh America in nature, garden photography, and digital photography, and shares his images through slide programs on a variety of environmental topics.

America's natural, rural, and historical heritage is fragile, and Ian hopes that his photographs can serve as a legacy to help create a better awareness of these irreplaceable resources for future generations.