Shooting Rainforest Light: What Thomas Heaton's Olympic National Park Session Taught Me About Embracing Miserable Weather

Shooting Rainforest Light: What Thomas Heaton's Olympic National Park Session Taught Me About Embracing Miserable Weather

There’s a version of landscape photography that looks like the brochure. Golden hour, clear skies, a tripod planted on dry ground. Then there’s the version most of us actually live. It’s the version where you’re standing in a downpour wondering whether the shot is worth the risk to your camera body, and the answer is almost always yes, but you have to know what you’re doing. I’ve been shooting full-time for twenty years and wet conditions are still the ones that separate the frames I actually sell from the ones that look like every other image of that location.