Read the Sky Before You Raise the Camera: A Landscape Photographer's Weather Planning Guide

Read the Sky Before You Raise the Camera: A Landscape Photographer's Weather Planning Guide

There’s a version of me from about fifteen years ago who would drive to a location on pure hope. I’d seen a photograph someone else made there, I’d circled it on a mental map, and I’d show up whenever I could carve out a morning. Sometimes I got lucky. More often I got flat light, a milky white sky, and a long drive home with nothing on the card worth keeping.