What’s under your feet when you’re out in the landscape?

Beginner’s Landscape Photography: print book available

Objective, dispassionate, honest self-criticism is the only way to improve your landscape photography. You know how easy it is to point out flaws in someone else’s shots? You need to start doing that to your own shots.

If that’s a bit vague, here are some thoughts to help you:

Learn from my mistakes and don’t miss the shot of a lifetime if the aurora borealis comes out.

An epic road trip through a remote landscape brings you close to a constantly changing panorama ready to be caught by your camera. The tips in this post are designed to keep you shooting: you need to be physically ready to get in the position you need for the shot, but you also need to be mentally ready to make decisions about settings and creative composition.

The advice used to be simple - leave only footprints, take only photographs. But in leaving our footprints and taking our photographs are we still damaging the environment? Is there any impact-free photography left?

How to shoot confidently in a group, or hold your own in a photography conversation.

You arrive at a beautiful sunset destination. You have thought about which settings you might use. You have planned your composition. The conditions are perfect. Yet you stay in the car, don't get your camera out, and leave with just a phone shot taken through the car window.

What happened?