A landscape is the visible character of a place, including the landforms, water, vegetation, weather, light, and sometimes human-made features that give an area its distinct appearance. In photography and art, though, a landscape is more than a collection of physical features...
The history of landscape photography begins long before the invention of the camera. Painters were already trying to answer many of the same questions photographers face today: how to show a three-dimensional subject on a flat surface, how to convey scale, how to guide the eye through an image, and how to translate the experience of being in a place into something that can live on a wall...
