Landscape Talk

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Towering mountains, humbling forests, gushing waterfalls are easy-mode anon. Stop wishing for easy-mode and start trying you represent your state for what it is. Landscape photography shouldn't be easy-mode. I think time of day and weather trump landscape features when it comes to landscape photography.

You live in Texas, you get AMAZING thunderstorms. The light of a sunset just after a thunderstorm has passed is the most beautiful light in the world. Take advantage of that. Go out before sunrise and after sunset and capture the earth's shadow as it slowly rises above the horizon. Wait for days with nice clouds or strong winds. Look for trees that cast shadows seductively across the ground. Wait for birds to be flying through the frame or for deer to come out into the fields. Adding a few smaller, less exciting moments to each other within a frame can create an image just as exciting as a glacier lake.

Glacier lakes and all that shit are so played out right now anyway. I'd be way more interested in checking out a set of well-shot central TX landscape photos than a set of well-shot photos from Lake Louis or Yellowstone.

You also have many industries in your state that you could shoot as landscape photos. Oil and agriculture could be hugely interesting and just as beautiful as any waterfall photo if you shoot it right and with passion. The attached picture is part of a N. Dakota photographer's winning submission to a photo contest that just ended that saw 4,700 entries. They're proposal is telling the story of the pipelines and industry that has boomed in their state in the past few decades and it's affect on the land and towns. That shit is way more interesting than a one-liner photo of a waterfall.

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>>3097855
Wow, i appreciate the incredible response anon, this is just what i needed.

Its hard to remember the difference in circumstance can be beneficial when every landscape photographer and their mother seems to constantly show off the national park in their backyard.

Guess I'll look for new spots to wait around for those texas conditions- everything feels flat without interesting weather.