Bad Weather Photography

Video Tutorials

How to Shoot Landscapes in Wind and Rain (And Why You Should Stop Waiting for Perfect Weather)

There’s a version of landscape photography that lives in your head before you leave the house. Golden light, still air, perfect conditions. Then there’s the version that actually happens. After twenty years of predawn alarms and six-hour drives to locations that greeted me with nothing but fog, I’ve made peace with the fact that the second version is where the real work happens. The trouble is, most photographers either head home when the weather turns or they freeze up trying to manage the chaos.

August 7, 2026

Video Tutorials

Shooting Midday in Bad Weather: What Thomas Heaton's Isle of Harris Trip Taught Me About Staying Loose

There’s a version of landscape photography that lives entirely in the golden hours, where everything cooperates and the light does exactly what you hoped. That version is real, but it’s not the majority of your time in the field. Most of it is waiting, pivoting, and figuring out what to do when the plan falls apart by 10am. That’s the problem this tutorial actually solves, and it’s why I keep coming back to it.

July 25, 2026