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Gallery: looking back at landscapes

November 9, 2025 / 53 Comments

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment

Ansel Adams

Every landscape photographer knows that sense of disappointment, when the beauty and drama of the scene in front of them fails to come through in their images. We can capture the view, yes, but it’s harder to capture the feelings that view induces. Landscapes fill us with awe, often making us aware of the very small space we occupy in the universe. On paper however, or on a screen, their scale is diminished and we lose that sense of awe.

But still we try, and sometimes we almost succeed. I can’t imagine how many landscapes I have tried to photograph over the years and how few I felt truly happy with.

Egidio this week is asking us to look back at landscapes for his Lens Artists challenge. I’ve shared so many since I started this blog and I don’t like to repeat myself, so I thought I would take his theme literally and concentrate on landscape shots taken some time ago, most of which I hope will be new to you.

But there are, I admit, some old favourites in there that have appeared here before. So I’ve taken the opportunity to freshen some of them up with a new edit, using tools I didn’t have back then or wasn’t using to their full capacity. Hopefully therefore, even those you have seen before will look a little different!

My feature shot was taken at the City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico.

Edit: I prepared this post before properly reading Egidio’s, so I owe him an apology. He asked for no more than six photos and I have seventeen!

Early morning mist near Bevagna, Italy

The view from Emory Pass, New Mexico

The Colca Canyon, Peru

Kamikochi, Chubu Sangaku National Park, Japan

Farming valley among the mountains near Hamhung, North Korea

Rural scene north of Pyongyang, North Korea

Fields and mountains near Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Marigolds growing in Rajasthan, India

In the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Mirror Lake, Snowy Range Scenic Byway, Wyoming

Near Dyrholaey, Iceland

Lake Zurich, Switzerland

Lake Quilotoa, Ecuadorian Andes

In the Parque Nacional Cajas, Ecuador

Forest near Mandina Lodge on the Gambia River

Deadvlei, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia

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