Being good stewards of the land is not a political choice, it is a responsibility of everyone regardless! We should celebrate our environments as residents of this planet where our choices have a direct impact on its sustainability.
As many pictures as I take of beautiful locations, there is a deeper and darker reason to document these landscapes. Some more than others are in danger of changing rapidly over the next few decades becoming unrecognizable.
When starting out in photography I believed I needed to shoot something big, identifiable, and popular. I would travel vast distances to photograph something that had been shot hundreds of times before because it had a formula I could follow. A prescription for the prefect landscape photograph.
I went on a trip in April to Falls Creek Falls on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge in the shadow of Mt. St Helens. It is an epic waterfall with 3 tiers and a massive amount of water cascading over it constantly.
Not all landscape photography takes place at sunrise and sunset because sometimes you just can't be there then and a 'good enough' image is all you can get!
This is another gear-related article about what I use to create photos, and also on why I don't switch to a mirrorless camera. My opinion only in today's world.
It is going through a lot of big controversial changes recently, but I want to talk about why I personally love Instagram because of the direction it is going in.