Welcome the Landscape and Nature Photography blog

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.

If the topic you're interested in doesn't appear near the top of the blog, use the handy search feature on the right to check previous posts for that subject. Themes like the rule-of-thirds, using lines and curves, finding foreground elements, photographic filters, light angles, tripods, and others are discussed, with examples provided to illustrate the concepts.


Free Online Photo Editing

Maybe you haven't purchased image editing software yet, or maybe you're away from the computer that has it, but you've got some photos and you have access to the web.  What do you do?  I like picnik.com in these situations.  Since I carry my camera in the car all the time, it's not unusual to capture a great image on the way to work.  Eager to share it with the world before I get home, I'll upload it to picnik and edit it there.  Below are just a few examples of the many options available to you there.  


For this first image, I used picnik's auto-correct and sharpening functions.  It's a pretty true representation of the scene I saw.  Then, as I often do with snowy or cloudy scenes, I converted it to black and white:

 The image above applies an effect that picnik calls "lomo-ish."

The one below is using their "hdr" effect.