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Sunset on Biscaye Bay from Elliott Key. Biscayne National Park, Florida, USA.
Biscayne National Park, a short distance offshore from Miami, is a unique marine park that requires planning ahead for water transportation in order to see
it clearly.  Only a sliver of the park is accessible by road during the daytime hours. For good landscape photography opportunities, you should camp on the islands, which is best done from late fall to early spring, as insects are thick in summer.  A concessionaire provides transportation to Elliott Key and Boca Chita Key outside of summer.  On the other hand, although they run snorkeling and diving trips year-round, the best underwater photography opportunities...

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QT Luong is a full-time photographer from California, known for being the first to photograph all 59 US National Parks - in large format. Ken Burns featured him in "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (2009). His photographs, published in dozens of countries around the world, have been the subject several magazine profiles, solo gallery and museum exhibits. He the author and photographer of "Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey through America's National Parks" (treasuredlandsbook.com), a large format book where photographs of the 59 US National Parks are augmented with detailed photography locations notes from which this series of articles is drawn.
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