I am a landscape photographer from Taiwan . But I work in Sydney, Australia now .
I know that I feel an overwhelming need to own my response to a landscape that I deeply care for.  If I am forced to tolerate compromises with the resulting image showing to have departed from my pre-visualisation then the photograph will have failed, it will not wholeheartedly evoke my experience and will fall short of my intended interpretation.

To me, landscape photography is about intent, about how you personally interpret an object.

As a landscape photographer most of what I photograph falls into the realm of traditional landscape photography. That is, large views of the scenery which surrounds me. Sunsets over the ocean, trees in a field, a stream meandering through a forest. But, I have photographed objects which at first I was reticent to call landscape photography.

Is every “happy snap” taken of the landscape, by default, a landscape photo? I would argue that it is not.

In trying to answer the question, “what is landscape photography”, I came across many possible definitions including “the branch of photography dealing with the representation of natural scenery” to “photos of pretty much anything as long as it’s outside”!

So, what is landscape photography? For me, it is photography that focuses on the natural world and has a purpose…

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