Ohio's 200th birthday is here and so is Ian Adams' masterful photographic exposition, "Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait." Sole photographer of six books and two long-running calendar series on Ohio, Adams contributed the winning image picked by the US Postal Service for the official 2003 Ohio Statehood Stamp. With over 300 lush photographs that he has selected for this composite portrait of his home state, Ohio's premier landscape photographer treats Ohioans to a grand tour of their state's natural and historical treasures, arranged into chapters on Ohio's rocks, flowers, factories, conveyances, public art, schools, farms, seasons, and wilds. Stephen Ostrander, pundit of all things Ohioan, serves up a delicious but nutritious essay on each of Adams' pictorial themes. Adams and Ostrander summon all their artistic skill and native pride to portray the beautiful face of bicentennial Ohio: as it was, as it still is, as it has changed, and as it may be again.
About the Author
A youthful emigrant to Ohio from Birmingham, England, Ian Adams has adjusted himself so well to his chosen country as to become the sole photographer of six books about Ohio and the Midwest and a regular contributor to numerous regional and national magazines, including "Ohio," "Ohio Week," "Ohio Motorist," "Plain Dealer," and "Midwest Living." He has also been the sole photographer for BrownTrout's "Wild & Scenic Ohio" calendars every year since 1989 and for its "Ohio Places" calendars since 1993. An historian by training and a naturalist by profession, Stephen Ostrander has written the definitive encyclopedic guidebook to the natural wonders of Ohio, "The Ohio Nature Almanac."
Ian Adams is an environmental photographer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, specializing in natural, rural, historical and garden photography. Since 1985, more than 6,000 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 Country Gardens, Fine Gardening, Family Circle, Horticulture, Midwest Living and Organic Gardening Magazines.