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Landscape and nature photography is popular in scenic areas, because there's so much subject matter everywhere one turns. This blog will help you advance from taking a mere snapshot of beautiful scenery to creating a great photograph that pulls you into that scene as though you were back there again.

From winter landscape photography to macro photography, color to black and white, view my beautiful nature photography and read the digital landscape photography tips I offer to help you improve your photos.

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Arches National Park


Skyline Arch in Arches National Park yesterday morning. 

Driving into the park while looking at the map, it seemed like we wanted to hit those features that you could view from the east or south sides, so they would be lit by the morning sun.  There was a parking area and sign pointing to the west side of this arch, but it looked like we could drive into the campground and get a better view of it there. 

We parked at the ampitheater, and followed a well-worn but empty trail behind it to the arch.  There was nobody around, which couldn't be said for the rest of the park on this gorgeous Sunday.  Climbing around the rocks, we took a few photos of the arch from different angles before I noticed this patch of sand with some grasses and flowers that looked like they could be interesting foreground elements.