Landscape

Landscape Photography

Wikipedia’s definition of landscape photography is: “Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.”

Typically landscape photos don’t feature humans or wildlife and just focus on the world as and how it is.

Landscape photographers have their mind set on different themes and compositions for each photo, like just having a very naturalistic photo or a very abstract photo.

Landscape Photographers

A famous landscape photographer is Adam Burton, his photos are mainly of things like trees in winter, covered in snow and in Devon, and the colours he captures of the sky, ground and tree are exquisite. His description of this specific photo is: “A display of spectacular hoar frost greeted the west country on a chilly morning in December 2010. The landscape and trees turned white with thick ice, leaving the countryside looking otherworldly and magical. This was one of those moments that landscape photographers live for, and fortunately I was in the right place to make the most of it.” The Title of this photo is ‘whitewash’.

Another Photo he has taken is this of the boats on Derwent Water in the Lake District, the title he gave this photo was ‘Passenger Free’.The description he gave this photo was: “Boats, boats and more boats moored on Derwent Water in the beautiful English Lake District. I captured this one on the same morning as the ‘Valley in the Clouds’ image. I’ve just reviewed my RAW files to check the time I took my last shot at this location and first one at the mountain location. It was 22 minutes! 22 minutes of manic rushing as I packed the camera up, dashed to the car, drove through Keswick and on up the mountain road to Latrigg. Once at Latrigg I abandoned the footpath to make a more direct route up the hill to the viewpoint. I was rushing so much to get to the viewpoint before the mist subsided that my heart was almost thumping outside my chest and I was wheezing like an old man. Once I got to the viewpoint I set the camera up with shaky hands and allowed myself a few moments to catch my breath before I started shooting. Luckily the mist was still a thick blanket over Derwent Water. Phew!! After four trips up here during the week I had finally seen the view in some special conditions. Whenever people look at my pictures they mention how calm and patient I must be, and how tranquil it must be witnessing these scenes. Only us landscape photographers understand the stressful reality of these moments!!” I really like this photo because of the stillness of the lake and the mist in the background weaving in and out of the islands on Derwent Water.

Another Photographer I liked the work of was this of Charlie Waite. I really like his photo of Buttermere in Cumbria, I like the way the clouds create a shadow on the mountain, and I also really like the height this photo was taken on having the mountain start on the middle of the photo.

I also really like this photo he took of the grapevines in San Gimignano in Tuscany in Italy, I really like how the fog on the hill in the background gives the photo a sense of mystery and I like the way the buildings on the hill are almost silhouettes because of the sun shining through the clouds behind it.

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