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.


Sunny early spring day in Colorado


Bad weather and other circumstances have kept me from getting out and photographing on my day off for the last several weeks.  Nothing was stopping me today, and we went down to the river to see what was worthy of capturing.  Though we had some new snow this week, it's that time of year when it's melting faster than it's falling, and the river banks showed that. 

This bend in the Crystal River, between Redstone and Marble, Colorado, is called Placita.  It's one of my favorite places to go any time of year.  I had a polarizing filter on the camera, but because we were shooting into the sun much of the time, it didn't have much of an effect, other than cutting through the glare on the river.