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.


a bright sunny later winter day makes for a great black & white landscape


The sharp contrast offered by the scenery on a bright afternoon is perfect for converting from color to black and white.  The blindingly white snow and clouds and dark shadows in the pines give the range of contrast that works well when using the Channel Mixer in Photoshop to convert to monochrome.  This mountain landscape came out just as I hoped it would when I was shooting it.