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When the Sky Fails You: Using Intimate Landscape Projects to Break Out of a Creative Rut
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When the Sky Fails You: Using Intimate Landscape Projects to Break Out of a Creative Rut

There’s a particular kind of frustration that sets in around midsummer. The alarm goes off at 4am, you drive out to your location, and the sky is just… nothing. Flat, white, hazy. I’ve been doing this for twenty years and it still gets to me. The meadows in Central Oregon go bone-dry, the atmosphere turns milky, and every composition I know by heart starts to feel like a chore. That’s when the doubt creeps in.

See What Others Miss: A Landscape Photographer's Guide to Intimate Landscape Photography
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See What Others Miss: A Landscape Photographer's Guide to Intimate Landscape Photography

There’s a particular kind of creative rut that’s easy to fall into as a landscape photographer, and I say that as someone who’s been doing this full time for two decades. You drive to a famous location, you set up where everyone else sets up, and you come home with a perfectly competent image that looks almost identical to the top result on a Google image search. The shot is technically fine.