Meet the artist behind our photogenic cover story this week: Macduff Everton. He’s done everything from lifestyle, landscape, travel, and fine art images from around the globe as a National Geographic photographer and visual anthropologist.
What inspired these cloud photos and what did gathering all of these shots take?
It’s not a series per se. When I shoot landscapes, clouds hopefully show up. Using a panoramic camera, I need to hold the camera level, so the sky is often half the image. If there aren’t clouds, half the image is boring. I need to pay attention to composition and every part of my canvas, or, as fellow artist Arthur Wesley Dow taught Georgia O’Keeffe, the importance of “filling a space in a beautiful way.”