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    2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest Third Place: Big Sky Country

    Photo By Kelly Moran Third place in the 2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest goes to Kelly Moran for the image, “Big Sky Country.” “While the Maasai Mara reserve is famous for its density of wildlife and migration river crossings, one of my favorite things about the area is its amazing sky,”...
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    2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest First Place: Napali Storm

    Photo By Richard Langer The grand prize in the 2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest goes to Richard Langer for the image, “Napali Storm.” “This photograph was taken from a small helicopter over the Napali cliffs on the island of Kauai, Hawaii,” explains Langer. “To avoid the distortions that...
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    2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest Second Place: River Bend

    Photo By Douglas Croft Second place in the 2019 Great Outdoors Photo Contest goes to Douglas Croft for the image, “River Bend.” “I’ve been to Yosemite Valley so many times and I’ve never seen it as beautiful as it was on this day,” recalls Croft. “An overnight storm had left a couple of...
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    8 Ways To Improve Your Wildlife Photography

    Wildlife photography is a challenge. When it comes to nature photography, it’s the most difficult aspect into which you’ll endeavor. There’s a plethora of variables over which you have zero control. Will the subject cross your path as you traverse a road or trail? Will it appear in a place where...
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    Behind The Shot: Bison In Snow

    Photo By Albert Wollerton I first visited Yellowstone National Park in the fall of 1969, four months after returning from Vietnam. I had a Beseler Topcon 35mm SLR film camera, but I wouldn’t have called myself a photographer. A friend and I backpacked into the mountains of Yellowstone’s...
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    COVID-19 And The National Parks: Should The Parks Be Closed?

    The Daily Beast’s Miranda Green reported that a park employee at Lyndon B. Johnson Historic Park in Texas sent a staff-wide email demanding park closures. Photo credit: NPS/Cynthia Dorminey. We love our national parks, and as we all grapple with adjusting to staying at home, away from public...
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    The Future of Nature Photography

    What does the future hold for nature photographers—their equipment, techniques, approaches, output, influence and access to nature subjects themselves? Here are perspectives from two Outdoor Photographer contributors, long-time columnist and nature photography icon George D. Lepp, and Aaron...
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    6 Creative Macro Background Tips

    I primarily photograph wildlife. This means I seldom work in a controlled environment. I love the challenge of capturing subjects in natural light, in their own environment and on their terms. But when it comes to flowers, which don’t move, and some insects that have been raised under controlled...
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    How To Create Images Of Animals With Impact, Part 2

    I’m a stout proponent of less is more when it comes to my photography. This is the point of this and last week’s tip—KISS: Keep It Simple And Splendid. Below I offer more techniques that will help you create images of animals with impact. Using Flash to Control the Elements For me, light is...
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    Hasselblad X1D II For Landscape Photography

    My college graduation present from my parents was a Mamiya 6 rangefinder. I loved that camera. It offered the image quality of medium format film but in a hand-friendly, rangefinder-style body rather than the boxy form factor of most medium format cameras. The Mamiya 6 had its limitations...
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    In The Neighborhood: Wildlife Photography Near You

    Spring officially arrived at my home in Parker, Colorado, the other day. I knew this because I heard my first house wren of the year. This tiny bird, with its wonderful, melodious and happy bubbling song, is a true harbinger of spring where I live. The bird, a male, sat in my garden and trilled...
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    KISS The Animals, Part 1

    A good photographer has a lot in common with an accomplished sculptor. Both must meticulously chip away at what confronts him or her and chisel away distracting elements until only the essentials remain. Armed with the camera, the photographer sorts out the chaos and whittles away the negative...
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    Amongst Giants

    It has never been more difficult to make a truly notable landscape photograph. Yes, technology has made mastery of the photographic process more accessible than ever, but it has simultaneously become nearly impossible to create something unique. To stand on the shoulders of those who have come...
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    The Eyes Have It

    Every photographer has a unique way to see the world. Some use telephoto eyes, others exercise wide-angle ones and some avail themselves to macro eyes. Any one of the three can be used to capture great photos. The more the eye becomes trained to see compositions, the easier it is to become...
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    Sparks Lake

    Sparks Lake is located 25 miles west of Bend, Oregon, along the beautiful Cascades Lakes Scenic Byway. Sweeping mountain views, spring wildflowers and volcanic outcroppings make for naturally elegant compositions that beckon to landscape photographers. With a surface elevation of 5,433 feet, 780...
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    Rays Some Hope: Sunscapes, Part 2

    The focus of this and last week’s Tip of the Week is sunscapes. A sunscape is a landscape or wildlife image that includes the sun. To make a great sunscape, essential conditions must align for the picture to be successful. Time of day, atmospheric conditions, careful technique and common sense...
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    The Clearest Path To Black & White

    At the very moment landscape photographer Marc Koegel steps outside to begin the search for his next photograph, he has already won. For him, success lies not in the trophy of the finished image but rather the process of being out in the world, camera in hand. It’s about the journey as much as...
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    Rays Some Hope: Sunscapes, Part 1

    Sunlight is important for photography. As a matter of fact, it goes deeper. If it weren’t for the sun, life as we know it wouldn’t exist and there’d be nothing to photograph! Plants rely upon it for energy, its gravity holds the planets of our solar system in orbit, it provides UV rays and heat...
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    Last Frame: Another Day At The Lodge

    Photo By Penny Meyers “Winter in Minnesota often has us spending a lot of time indoors, so on a nice January day, I took a walk at Dunton Locks County Park in Becker County, about a half-hour from my home,” recalls photographer Penny Meyers. “I came upon this beaver sitting on the snow-covered...
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    Shapes, Patterns, Textures And Lines

    Shapes, patterns, textures and lines are all key components of an image. They exist in just about every subject. The key is how you weave them into your photos. Abstractly, each of the above can be singled out and become the main character of a photo. They can be photographed from ground level...


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