Tips For the Landscape Photographer

Photography is a powerful tool, and every photographer should aim to capture images that align with their style and vision for a photo. For example, the landscape photographer in me wants to capture images of the beauty found in nature. At the same time, the artist in me wishes to...

After a long winter, spring brings the long-awaited renewal of life to a landscape setting. However, finding appealing scenes during the spring transition season can sometimes be challenging. Melting snow can be trampled by footprints and speckled with dirt. Deciduous trees aren't yet...

Texture is an element that occurs naturally in a landscape setting, so it's easily incorporated into the composition of a photo. Texture can be found in clouds, landscape elements like mountains or sea stacks, trees, shrubbery, ice, water, rocks, and sand. 

Impactful use of texture in a...

It happens. Every photographer goes through a stage when photographing new and exciting locations is impossible. Perhaps this is happening to you right now. Maybe life has you tending to responsibilities at home, or health issues have you resting without travel possibilities, or life has some...

I'm always looking for creative ways to photograph familiar scenes. Composing landscape images thoughtfully will contribute to the visual success of a photo. 

Today, I'm not going to talk about standard compositional guidelines like the Rule of Thirds. Instead, I want to highlight...

Landscape photography is not for the faint of heart. Landscape photographers rise before the earliest birds begin to sing their morning songs. We skip meals ignoring hunger, fatigue, cold and heat. We hike through forests and fields, hoping that the animal tracks in the snow are not all...