Shooting

If you're susceptable to being bit by the travel bug, looking through Alissa Everett's online portfolio might pose a serious danger to your bank acount. For the better part of the last decade, she has been traveling the world, capturing the people, architecture and culture of places most of us have only read about. Some of them sound amazing, and some are downright terrifying. But in her travels she has learned a lot about how to make great images, even with language and cultural barriers standing in her way.

Summer is right around the corner, and for many photographers that means staking out amusement parks and fairgrounds for great images. Shots of rides at dusk, like David Bowman’s “Fighter,” above, are almost a sure thing. “Every year at the end of summer, about 2 million people attend the Minnesota Fair outside of St. Paul, including me,” says the Minneapolis pro. “In 2008, I was there for all 12 days, and shot with my Sinar P2 4x5 camera. I wanted big prints that showed every detail.”

Forget sunny landscapes. For adventurous photographers, there’s an alternate world to explore below ground. And with thousands of caves and caverns across the U.S, you’ve likely got several nearby, from the saltpeter caves of Alabama and Kentucky to the marble caves of California and Oregon. Tennessee alone has some 10,000 documented ones.