Setting up a landscape photograph is not complicated and is the subject of many articles in magazines, Web sites, and books. This presentation, however, will look beyond the basic skills of setting up a landscape photo and discuss concepts to encourage us to expand on how we look not only at landscape photography, but other types of photograph as well.

I’ll bring up for discussion topics such as: creating connections, limitations, why we photograph, and environmental impacts of landscape photography. There will be opportunities to touch on equipment, composition, and locations with the idea of building on our technical foundations to expand how we approach a landscape photograph.

Larry’s Background:

My early interest in photography turned into 14 years of working in various roles at several newspapers. Leaving journalism also left me without a specific reason to photograph until a trip to Banff National Park in Canada sparked my interest in landscape photography. Since then, landscape photography has become my connection with nature. Being out in the landscape – especially by myself and early in the morning – is a soothing, almost meditative, experience. In a world of jangling cell phones and hectic schedules, I feel it’s important to share that feeling through my photographs.

However, at one point my landscape photography hit a dead end. To “restart” myself, I spent four years photographing churches in Iowa resulting in a project called “Places of Spirit and Light”. The insights I gained from that project provided a fresh approach to landscape photography.

Since 2003, my work has been in numerous juried art shows and exhibits; curated into several national exhibits, and has appeared in four LensWork publications.