Landscape photography suffers from a rather bad reputation thanks to the cliche use of wide angle lenses, light flare and cooky colour filters. The invention of Photoshop has not helped, encouraging sickly glossy images of sweeping vistas, Barley fields at sunset with strangely orange clouds etc... Of course this is a tiny percentage of what comes under the term 'landscape photography' but it seems to dominate in terms of how people view it as a credible form of creative photography.
I digress; the reason I am posting on this subject is the highly regarded Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010 competition is now calling for submissions, maybe this is our chance to reclaim landscape photography as a true art form!? And with a £10,000 top prize it seems well worth a submission............... Let the competition commence! (Link below)
I digress; the reason I am posting on this subject is the highly regarded Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010 competition is now calling for submissions, maybe this is our chance to reclaim landscape photography as a true art form!? And with a £10,000 top prize it seems well worth a submission............... Let the competition commence! (Link below)
