eBook: The Art of the Landscape

Your visual guide to creating compelling landscape photographs – with any camera!

In nature, in the city, or travelling the world, landscape photography is a foundation for creating engaging photographs.

From visualization to field craft and back home again for screen craft, The Art of the Landscape is a 100-page eBook that takes you on a visual journey through the process of creating compelling landscape photographs.

“The closest thing to having a personalized workshop,
both in the field and on-screen.”

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An excerpt from the Introduction:

Let’s start with the disappointment. After visiting a magical place at an extraordinary moment, you look at your photos — and the magic is gone. The lighting is flat. The colour seem drab. Everything is too far away. The entire scene lacks context.

The most compelling landscapes are photographs that invite viewers to step into them, but how is that achieved? Like everything, it’s a process.

Photographs may appear to be spontaneous, but experienced photographers are working through three-stages in that journey:

Visualization  →  Field Craft  →  Screen Craft

Visualization is the process of creating in your mind a picture of the finished photograph as you want it to look on the wall.

Field Craft is making use of the Ambient Conditions, Aesthetic Elements and Technical Controls available to you, to re-create your visualization not as a finished photograph, but as a digital negative or on film.

Screen Craft involves breathing life back into the machine image, that digital file or negative, using processing software or in a darkroom. As this book is written in 2026, I’ll concentrate on digital processes.

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The Art of the Landscape is an eBook, designed to be read on a tablet, laptop or desktop, using the cursor keys to navigate from page to page or jump to a topic with the hyperlinked Table of Contents.

Example pages . . .

Following on from the introduction are four sections that delve into the concepts mentioned above.

Ambient Conditions is where it all begins: the weather around you, the time of day you are out photographing, and the time of year. These elements play a critical role in creating the feeling and experience of ‘being there’. 

While the Ambient Conditions of light and atmosphere are the window dressing of a great scene, it is the composition that invites viewers to step in for a look around. And the basis of composition is how you, the photographer choose to arrange the various Aesthetic Elements of the scene. 

There is more written about Technical Controls than any other aspect of photography, except for gear. This is unfortunate, as it can lead to the Perfectionist’s Trap, where an inordinate amount of time is spent behind the camera getting the technical controls perfect, rather than seeing the scene for what it is and working with it. 

Post-Capture Processing itself presents its own unique challenges, a subject that could fill an entire book. In the few pages ahead, I’ll outline the fundamentals of processing to provide overall guidance of what to look for, plus some ideas for how to approach edits. 

The book continues with a look at Beyond the Basics, offering ideas about how to stay fresh and experiment with landscape photography.

”The best $12 you’ll spend on photography this year”

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