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.


Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Spring Flowers

Colorado wildflowers, cactus flowers, poppies, lilacs, and more!  Don't you love the color explosion happening all around?

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Shooting Stars

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Poppies

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Cactus Flowers

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Lilac Bush

Rain




It's been very rainy here for the last week.  We've had showers and thundershowers every afternoon or evening.  While this makes landscape photography a challenge (if not an impossibility), it does create some great opportunities for other nature photography.

The flat light is great for close-ups of plants, most of which have rain drops, which always has an interesting visual appeal.

When shooting this close, you're going to have very limited depth of field.  I recommend taking many shots of each leaf and flower, and looking over the on the computer to see which ones you like best.  I also believe you should crop much of the scene away, leaving the colors, textures, and contrast of the items that drew your attention in the first place.

As always, avoid centering.  Try to place the most interesting part of your image off-center.

Leaves, bark, buds, bugs, and bokeh






A nice walk in the Wisconsin woods yielded several good photos as well as a few hitchhiking ticks.