The Grand Landscape

The Grand Landscape; big, bold, sweeping photographs of the earth… this is what I’ve focused my entire career on. Now I’ve decided to take my Grand Landscape compositions and dissect them for you to learn my theories. Foregrounds, mid grounds, backgrounds and everything in between to tie them all together and hold the viewer’s eye in the photograph for as long as possible. After all, keeping the viewer drawn into your image is one of the biggest goals of composing a scene and expressing your interpretation of the landscape to them.

This video breaks down some of my best (and worst) compositions from the past 16 years I’ve spent holding a camera to my face.