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.


Getting Small

When a friend and fellow photographer offered to let me try out his 100 mm Leica macro lens, I jumped at the chance.  I borrowed it for an afternoon and took it up Red Hill to photograph the lichen, moss, sage, and weathered wood in the pinon/juniper landscape there.  Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day: