Landscape Your Walls

It was the influence of a landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson, that was instrumental in the USA congress declaring Yellowstone as the country’s first national park in 1872. His famous counterparts Ansel Adams and Edward Weston were equally responsible for creating an appreciation of nature through their stunning landscape photography, capturing some of America’s most spectacular scenery in black and white.

Copies of their original photographs now sell for upwards of US$70,000 but modern day replicas are available for as little as US$130 for Ansel Adams prints from his online store – see anseladams.com. Edward Weston’s oeuvre covers a much wider subject range from nudes to fruit and shells but his landscape photographs can be found for sale at artnet.com.

Without wanting to suggest that just anyone can replicate works of the quality of these masters, it is one of the easier forms pf photography to master if you’re lucky with the light. Mostly what’s needed is a memorable piece of scenery, good natural light and a reasonably wide angle lens. If you’re wanting get more serious and take longer exposure pictures then a tripod is a useful accessory and possibly a couple of filters, I find in the tropical sun a polarising filter is a must but you could also include some neutral density filters for longer exposures too.

A quick search of the internet reveals any number of dealers selling landscape pictures which can bought at very reasonable prices and printed on a variety of surfaces from paper to canvas, so bring the view inside.