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.


Oh, the strange shapes you'll see


Snowstorms earlier in the week coated the windward side of every tree.  Then the sun and mild temperatures would melt the snow, which re-froze at night, creating some interesting ice formations like the one above.

This caught my eye as I was snowshoeing up the mountainside, and I was more than willing to take a rest to catch my breath and fire off a dozen or more photos.  This one is my favorite, because of the bokeh pine that creates great contrast with the ice.