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.


Black and white winterscape


Hiking to the top of Huntsmans Ridge, these snow-covered trees were irresistible.  Though it looks like I was using a polarizing filter, all I had was a UV filter on the lens.  The sky was just that blue.  I converted to black and white using the Channel Mixer in Photoshop. 

This was one of my favorite photos of the day, and I had a lot of good ones.  Of over five hundred photos shot, I posted only ten to my flickr pages.  One of the many advantages of digital is the ability to compose the same scene many different ways, and choose the best once you get home and upload the photos to your computer.

I cropped up from the bottom on this photograph, mostly to improve the balance (rule of thirds), but also to remove some unnecessary foreground.