3 Fresh Tips for Spring Landscape Photography

If winter is the season of monochrome, spring is the season of color. Spring, following a season of coma-like dormancy, reminds us that we inhabit a miraculous living organism. We are reminded that our planet is a colorful one. Absence, indeed, makes the heart grow fonder. Before extolling the virtues of spring landscape photography, it is important to give a nod to spring’s predecessor, winter. I love winter landscape photography. It is the most graphic of seasons. A blanket of snow can transform an otherwise complicated scene into a simple, minimalistic tableau. Snow and ice provide a limitless supply of textures. The low angle of the winter’s sun brings those textures to life. In short, winter is a season of monochromatic simplicity. In spite of the fact that the seasons don’t care what we think about them, it strikes me as fortuitous that the transition from winter to spring in the Rocky Mountain West is agonizingly slow. If overnight, we transitioned from pristine winter conditions, with fluffy snow and polished ice, to the height of spring, with peak wildflower blooms and verdant hills, I think we would feel shortchanged. It might feel as though we didn’t get to photograph […]

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