You guys and gals need to start taking more landscape photos.

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No landscapes here either but we do have cows.

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When I started in photography way back in the late 70's my passion was landscape work, it stuck with me throughout most of my life. Up to about 4 years ago I did quite a bit of hiking and landscape work and hiking for me just went well together. Today I live in an area that is devoid for the most part of anything I would consider a good subject for landscape work but I have travelled a fair bit to areas of Canada and Europe that are rich in landscape possibilities, it's there that I did most of my shooting and I still do.

Now I've embraced bird photography which really fits well in the area that I currently live in, it terrible for landscapes but we have an amazing richness in wildlife and specifically birds so that is now my primary focus but I do miss getting up into the mountains.
 
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StarDust said:
Example from this forum

I used this one but there are so many with 0 likes
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I think, people look often in Wildlife Presentation sub-forum and not often in Landscape Presentation Forum.

Borden said:
Just gonna say it. While all you guys and gals are out chasing down pretty animals for that super sharp, close up you should be taking landscape photos for fun too. Simple. 😉🤔 we need more beauty landscape photos being posted and more interaction in the landscape presentation forum.
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I agree with it.
I think also that we need to exercise in different arts of photography because we will expand our horizons, learn other Technics which we can apply on our own scope of photography.
For example, landscape photography demands more precise processing especially local processing or how to use wide angle lenses. I checked Africa Geographic Photographer of the year for 2024 - https://africageographic.com/stories/photographer-of-the-year-2024-winners/
And it looks like the winner used wide angle lens for his photo.
I learnt some ideas in macro photography which I used later in wildlife photography.
Even doing people portraits is useful. The eye learnt how the light works.
 
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StarDust said:
Example from this forum

I used this one but there are so many with 0 likes

in this link we see 70 views, and 0 likes

The images are pleasing to the eye.


Annapolis Valley waterfalls and farmland.

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This one has a few likes. There are others without any, but I've seen threads in the Wildlife presentation forums that don't have any likes, either. There's indeed almost 8 times more threads in the Wildlife forums (as said previously by others), but the thread view numbers don't seem to be much different at first sight (I didn't make any stats). There just seems to be fewer landscape photographs because there are more wildlife photographers.

I agree that they're very pleasing to the eye.

I noticed that the OP has been off since he created a few presentation threads and this (somewhat baiting) one, leaving some questions unanswered. It's a little strange and doesn't encourage the activity, nor does it give much support to the message, to be honest. :)
 
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I’m glad people interacted with this post. It was not meant to offend in any way. Of course. 😉. Nice to see some felt a little nudge to go and try more landscapes. They can be tricky as we all know. One thing I’ll say to people who don’t think there are any landscape pics in their area is, I think you may be wrong. 😑. Landscape Definetly don’t need to be grand sweeping vistas. We’ve been programmed to believe that. Try getting out of that idea zone and shoot whatever landscape is available to you. You’ll be surprised how we initially deem “mundane” and “boring” can be actual great landscape pics.
 
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Borden said:
You’ll be surprised how we initially deem “mundane” and “boring” can be actual great landscape pics.
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That's definitely my main issue. Seeing landscape pics here and elsewhere puts the bar quite high. That, coupled with the impression that one's region is boring, because we've seen countless times, is hard to overcome.
 
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MMoretti said:
Thank you, Jose. That was my fourth visit since 2020 and I have two more planned this June and July… can’t get enough! I’m happy to share travel and photography tips if/when you begin planning a trip there.
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Share the tips with all of us! Would love to see that part of Bolivia. Heck, would love to return to the part I've already seen... but a lot of that was lowlands because I was chasing endemic parrots. I was about to say the part I visited wasn't very "landscape-y" but just realized I was wrong. The true artist creates the landscape. There is someone posting here from cotton country in the US, and for all the time I spent in the Mississippi delta (for example) it never crossed my mind that you could make a landscape of it until I saw his images.
 
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There’s definitely plenty to see and do in the lowlands, in fact most of my recent travel over the last five years has been in the Santa Cruz and Beni departments (aka provinces) I’ve lived in both La Paz and in Santa Cruz; and we just bought an apartment in SC, so will probably be going even more often. In the highlands, it’s been straight up to Uyuni in those same five years, though on this last trip in Feb/Mar, I managed to get also to La Paz and Oruro (for Carnaval). So many unexplored areas up high, but Uyuni is the drawing card that gets me every time these days. I lived there from 2001-2011 and travel back regularly since; I’ve covered much of the country in that time — but with plenty yet to discover. (And lived there in the late 60s as a kid.)

Here are some travel tips for photographers (or anyone, I suppose) that I just published on my SmugMug site, as I’m working on a couple of tour projects there for the coming year. I’m also in the process of building galleries on the site of my photography in Bolivia and elsewhere… just started on the site in the last couple of weeks, so it’s still a bit bare. Help yourself to any info you find of interest, and feel free to DM me with any specific questions you might have, whether for getting there, around the country or actually shooting.
 
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I think I'm one of the odd ones out in this forum. I do far more landscape than wildlife photography. Primarily because I'm not interested in photographing most types of birds, and other larger wildlife is very hard to find in my area of New England. I enjoy both equally and they are two completely different skill sets. Astro landscape is something I would like to get into more, but the weather and my work schedule rarely cooperate to allow this.
 
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I enjoy the occasional landscape shot if it presents itself. Even better if there's an animal but not necessary. I've found that most of my landscapes sell to individuals and most of my wildlife shots are bought by magazines.
 
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Part of my issue is my kit, or lackthereof: I only have one Z8 body, a 500pf, and a 24-70S. Given that 99% of time I'm out in the field is spent looking for wildlife, to switch to wildlife mode would mean swapping lenses and I usually convince myself that it's not worth it because I don't trust my eye for a good landscape shot.

What I'm thinking about is getting a second camera that I can keep in my pocket: something small and cheap, but better than my phone (better ergonomics, full manual, raw, decent sized sensor - doesn't have to be full frame - etc), that I can access quickly and not give myself enough time to over think it. I'm open to recommendations.
 
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Doomrider74 said:
Part of my issue is my kit, or lackthereof: I only have one Z8 body, a 500pf, and a 24-70S. Given that 99% of time I'm out in the field is spent looking for wildlife, to switch to wildlife mode would mean swapping lenses and I usually convince myself that it's not worth it because I don't trust my eye for a good landscape shot.

What I'm thinking about is getting a second camera that I can keep in my pocket: something small and cheap, but better than my phone (better ergonomics, full manual, raw, decent sized sensor - doesn't have to be full frame - etc), that I can access quickly and not give myself enough time to over think it. I'm open to recommendations.
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Don’t want to interfere with anyone’s plans to get another bit of gear (that would be against the Code…), but you can get plenty of landscape mileage out of your 24-70. :)
 
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MMoretti said:
Don’t want to interfere with anyone’s plans to get another bit of gear (that would be against the Code…), but you can get plenty of landscape mileage out of your 24-70. :)
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Yes, I know, but as I said in my post, I'd prefer something I can use spur of the moment, which means either a second body to go with the 24-70, or perhaps a good compact.
 
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