Adventure Photography: 7 Examples of Exploration Photography

Looking at beautiful examples like this of adventure photography, makes me want to strap on a pair of well, I don’t know what they’re called, but let’s call them “spiky glacier climbing shoes” and have an adventure.

Though most of us will probably never summit Everest, we all have the opportunity to have adventures with our cameras, wherever in the world we all live.

There is poignancy and beauty to be found in even the most urban of landscapes, but admittedly, well at least for me, I find this ‘out there’ photography the most awe inspiring and captivating.

What do you think? Each image is clickable to take you to see the full size original on the National Geographic Website.

A Crystal Cave in Mexico – hands up who’s thinking about Superman *right* now!?

Kolmanskop, Namibia, A Ghost town overtaken by the desert…ooh creepy!

A Coral Garden, off the Coast of Dominica, in the Caribbean

Stars over a campsite on Mount Everest

Mountain Reflection in Tibet (who’s thinking about the movie 2012?)

Sunrise over Mount Everest (or more like ‘next to Everest’).  A friend of mine once showed me a photograph taken out of the window of a plane as they went near the vicinity of Everest, it was a *very* rare cloudless day and you could just make out the peaks.  The bizarre thing is that usually when you’re at 30 000 feet, you’re looking *down* on everything, but this photograph, you were clearly looking AT Everest. Just goes to show how tall it really is.

Caving in Tennessee. When you think of Tennessee (USA), the mind automatically thinks of country music. This just reminds us that there is so much more to see of the USA than what the media machine feeds us. Having personally run from a grizzly bear in remote northern Montana (yes I know you’re not supposed to run, but everyone else was, and I wasn’t about to become lunch) I can assure you there is *so* much more to the USA than what you see on television.

Right who is inspired to have some adventures of their own?? (Raises hand). At least, not in northern Montana until I’m fit again.

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