Natural Landscape

I have always thought of landscape as exactly what it says...the scape or beauty of the land. And to me the natural environment is beautiful. The first 3 photos are traditional landscape photos.

I did not alter the color in the 4th photo. This is what came out of my camera the night I was shooting the sky.

I included the 5th photo because it incorporates a human element...something I never considered as part of a landscape...until now.

Any feedback is appreciated. I am looking for ways to improve.

SURREAL LANDSCAPE

I really like Surreal Landscape Photography . I think this allows us as artistic individuals to be extreme creators. You know ,during the Gothic period of time in our world, and for a long while after that, people were not allowed to be creative. You were expected to do as you were told by the Hierarchy and the patron that gave you, your chance to paint or sculpt for them. There were NO individuals just people! Because of Individuals like ,Michaelangelo , Raphael, and Leonardo who began to take chances with their Art During the Renaissance,we can today, make a choice with our own intellectual Artistic side and express how we feel through Art. Photography helped to bring this about as well, with the creation of the Helotype, By Niepce 1827 ? , That was destroyed accidentally, and then a Deguerrotype later on. Hopefully this is right , other wise Wendy will kill me..... The point is ,isn't it awesome to be so fortunate during this time period? We should embrace it and go wild. So here is my contribution to going wild. It's as if someone out there is watching us ..........

Ariel Landscape

I enjoy photographing from unusual perspectives the more difficult the angel of view the better in my opinion. On this particular occasion , the gentlemen in the photo has a knack for throwing his body into the air , the higher the better. Consequently i guess you could say as photographer and sports enthusiasts we are a good match. This photo shoot was a 4 hour period of time when he, (Corbin) spent very little of his time standing still. To me this is a great view of our beautiful sky, we don't often get to enjoy such blues in our sky in the Los Angeles Area . So I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

This is part of a run I used to go on almost every evening for almost a year before I moved. The picture reminds me of the entire run because the entire scenery of my path looked exactly like this. As a photograph, my favorite aspect is the path curving through the bottom of the photograph, leading you to the background. I wish I would've aimed the camera slightly lower to focus less on the sky.

Land/Beauty Scape

A landscape shot taken in Big Sur, CA in the summer of 2010. For the landscape aspect I believe it is literally that, landscape. A photograph that shows some aspect of the land, it can be a completely organic or natural landscape, or a completely man made setting or a combination of both.

Pink winter morning

Before getting into photography more seriously, I always thougt landscape meant scenes from nature - and only nature - but as we know, it can mean a number of things. This one was shot a few weeks ago, when visiting friends & family in my hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, and obviously contains man made structures as well as infrastructure. To me it's important to capture feeling in a landscape photo, since I want to convey my own emotions about the place when shooting an image. I don't know if that's the case, but certainly hope to give the viewer some sort of feeling when looking at the image.