Outdoor Photography

Spectacular landforms appear in every corner of the Earth. Where water meets land, gorgeous arrays of sea stacks and beautiful sandstone arches abound. New landforms are created every day as volcanoes erupt and change topography by the minute. Deserts with spring and summer wildflower displays, majestic mountains, sprawling canyon overlooks, rainforests with waterfalls, rolling hills

Photo By Hope Pashos Today’s Photo Of The Day is “In Bloom” by Hope Pashos. Location: South Coast of Iceland. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are

Congratulations to Julie Boyd for winning the recent Go With The Flow Assignment with the image, “Liquid State.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

From lakes and rivers to oceans and waterfalls, water can be a great addition to landscape images by offering reflections, a sense of motion and exciting wildlife opportunities. Check out the 20 locations below where photographers found refreshing waterscape compositions.

The elegant spiral of a fiddleneck flower. Shooting handheld allowed me to refine the framing of the flower to my liking from an angle I wouldn’t have been able to achieve easily on a tripod. Single frame capture. Exposure: 1/800 sec., ƒ/20, ISO 2000. Nikon’s expanding lens collection for its mirrorless Z system now includes

For wildlife photographers, super-telephoto lenses are the key to capturing close-up, engaging compositions of subjects safely and respectfully. The advantages of super-tele primes compared to zooms are generally better image quality and constant maximum apertures, but that performance comes at a price, not only in dollars but also in size and weight. The options for super-tele

Don’t just take a picture, make a picture. Take charge of the settings on your camera so your images turn out the way you envision them. Don’t let the camera make decisions for you. While the “P” on your camera dial, which stands for Program Mode, often provides a perfect exposure, it doesn’t know that

Congratulations to Marti Phillips for winning the recent Spring In Bloom Assignment with the image, “Springtime, Hyde Park.” See more of Phillips’ photography at martiphillips.smugmug.com. View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

Photo By Mattias Hammar “This is the first macro shot that I was really happy with,” photographer Mattias Hammar of Gothenburg, Sweden, confides. “A blue damselfly defending the forest. The photo was taken beside a forest path close to a lake. When I passed, I saw 20 to 30 damsels buzzing in an area covered

Iris and Lupine. Schreiner’s Iris Gardens near Salem, Oregon, are a masterpiece of artistic floral composition. Canon EOS R5, Canon RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM at 159mm. Exposure: 1/90 sec., ƒ/16, ISO 400. The memory seems almost like a dream. I walk alone among great fields of vibrant lupine and golden poppies, photographing magnificent landscapes

Photo By David Shield Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Earth in the Balance” by David Shield. Location: Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. “I composed this image to show volcanic rock beneath Pectols Pyramid, located within Capitol Reef National Park,” explains Shield. “With Earth Day in mind, and to also promote a cleaner, healthier planet,

Photo by gary.hammes Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Napali Coast” by gary.hammes. Location: Hawaii. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Flash is probably the most under used photo accessory on the market. Simply put, it’s an amazing piece of equipment that few exploit. It allows us to add light where light doesn’t exist. Ponder that statement for a moment. A flash places light where none or little falls. Think about that outdoor photo you made

Manly Illuminated by nickolas.warner Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Manly Illuminated” by nickolas.warner. Location: Death Valley, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage,

Photo By Chris Linder Hornstrandir Nature Reserve is a roadless, 220-square-mile expanse of glacially carved valleys, towering sea cliffs, wildflower meadows, legions of seabirds—and Iceland’s only native terrestrial mammal, the arctic fox. With its rounded ears, thick fur and shortened legs and snout, the arctic fox is supremely adapted to an unforgiving climate. Iceland’s fox

Congratulations to Jeremy Janus for winning the recent Spring Showers Assignment with the image, “Raindrops of a Flower.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!