The Framework I Wish I'd Had Twenty Years Ago: Composing Landscape Images That Actually Work

The Framework I Wish I'd Had Twenty Years Ago: Composing Landscape Images That Actually Work

I’ve been shooting landscape photography full-time for two decades, and I still have weeks where I come home from a location and sit with my files feeling like something is off. The light was good. The conditions cooperated. But the images feel flat, or crowded, or just… unsettled. Usually that feeling traces back to the same root problem: I stopped thinking deliberately about the frame and started reacting to the scene.