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.


Bryce Canyon National Park - HDR

It wasn't a trip to Bryce as much as it was a trip to Utah that allowed us to pay a quick visit to Bryce (about 24 hours).

Cloudy, and at times stormy, the afternoon we arrived.  But clear and sunny the next morning.  So the shots reflect different weather and were processed differently to take advantage of how different treatments benefit different circumstances.

bryce canyon national park

bryce canyon national park

bryce canyon national park

bryce canyon national park

bryce canyon national park

bryce canyon national park

Placita Panorama!

colorado autumn panorama photograph mountains foliage
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Using Microsoft's Image Composite Editor (a free download), I joined fifteen vertical images into this panorama that shows Chair Mountain, McClure Pass, Mt. Sopris, and the Crystal River.

Winter Riverscape in both color and black & white

The Crystal River, connecting Marble, Redstone, and Carbondale, Colorado, is one of my favorite and most photographed subjects.  It's especially appealing in the winter.  Here it is following the fist and only significant snow storm of the year.  We just received another, smaller storm, followed by very cold weather.  As soon as it's done snowing, I'll get outside with the camera.



Autumn Landscape Photography in the Colorado Mountainst


autumn reflections


black & white almost looks like infrared

tilt-shift autumn landscape
Driving home one morning, I pulled off the road near one of my favorite places, and spent an hour walking around and photographing the autumn colors. 

Very dry conditions for most of the summer has left us with near-record low flows in the Crystal River, and rather subdued colors in the aspen trees, and yet things are pretty spectacular. 

One reason I love this area is the fields of sagebrush in the foreground.  Just for the heck of it, and to show you different ways of looking at autumn landscape photography, I've included a black & white image and a tilt-shift image.