Nature Photography Tips

Nature has to offer more than one right answer - let your vision evolve as you look over the landscape.

Don't exploit our beautiful environment for the sake of making a photograph.

The photograph should be the end results of your experience in our Natural World.

Experience the many natural wonders and let them flow into you. When you become
one with the environment, the end results will come forth in your final images.

Enjoy - Experience first, when the time is right you will know when to press the shutter.

Soft , steady lines of light peak through the sleepy eyes of dawn ... in Iowa.

Gentle wisps of light quietly stretch through the

darkness and lightly touch the Landscape.

Making the most of the atmospheric conditions that are present.
It creates the mood in this photograph.

The gorgeous tree photograph above would not have been possible if the foggy atmospheric conditions were not present.
Power lines and buildings obscure the background on a normal sunny day.
These trees are right along a road way at the DMACC Collage. (Ankeny)
Nature offers us many opportunities, don't lock yourself in to sunny clear days to photograph. Take advantage of these magical moments that help create those special moods in our photographs.
Steve Gibbons is a photo journalist and enjoys capturing photographs of people. He seems to always grab a shot of me when we are out enjoying ourselves capturing special moments in time on our lovely Iowa landscape.
This morning Steve was trying out some new Kodak 400 print film.
The grain of this film also adds to the over all mood of the final image.
Steve scanned these two images in to his computer and sent them to me via e-mail.
I then added the Copyright notice, drop shadow and then sent it up to my Nature Photography web site. The marvels of technology.
Get out and enjoy our many natural wonders ... Capture them on film and share the end results with others who are less fortunate and are not able to get out in to our beautiful environment.

Steve and I both created similar images of this Misty Morning Tree scene.

Steve was using 400 Kodak print film, Canon AE2, Tamron 28-200 Zoom and also a 75-300 Image Stabilizer lens from Canon.
I was using Fuji Velvia 50 slide film and a Nikon F4s.
The lens that I found most interesting was my 20 mm. I also captured a few images
with my 300mm F4AF which extracted a certain mood from the overall scene.
We each had are own vision on how we interpreted the scene.