Frans Lanting (franslanting)
If you want to see some incredible travel photos, possibly the best we’ve ever featured, then check out Frans Lanting on Instagram. It’s no wonder he’s a National Geographic photographer. He was born in the Netherlands and earned a master’s degree in economics before moving to the United States to study environmental planning. Soon after, he began photographing the natural world—and never turned back. Today he makes his home in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and partner, Chris Eckstrom, an editor, videographer and former staff writer at National Geographic with whom he collaborates on fieldwork and publishing projects.