by Randy Green
Landscape photography has been a grand custom about the photo world just about since the beginning of the technology. Great names about photography became familiar to generations: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Elliot Porter, Galen Rowell.
Most everybody with a camera shoots landscapes at one time or another. Most of our travel albums have handful often with the kids or family dog as the focus of attention. Yet landscape photography can be difficult to do well. If a scene is very attractive, it's often plain to the photographer what they should be taking a photograph of. But the well-practised or gifted photographer can take what looks to be a normal or unimpressive scene and present it about a way that makes the viewer reconsider the entire business of seeing.
So who would think that the gently-rolling prairie of the <a href="http://www.wildlifeadventures.com/photo-safaris/north-america/palouse-country-of-eastern-washington/palouse-digital-photo-workshop.html">Palouse</a> country of southeastern Washington might be such productive ground for landscape photography?
The landform of the Palouse formed through the Pleistocene more than 10,000 years back when great windstorms, common during that period, blew through great amounts of soil from the out-wash plain of the great glaciers of the time. The result today is some of the finest farmland globally and almost every sculptured hill is plowed and planted with wheat, canola, garbanzos and other crops.
Usually landscape photographers refrain from the "hand of man" about their work, but about this situation, it cannot be avoided and pointless. The Palouse country presents a cornucopia of farmsteads that are iconic Americana. Victorian and early Twentieth Century farm homes punctuate the borders of huge fields, especially colorful about the spring. Massive barns, many painted bright red, nestle between the hills, and make great points of stress for the photographer's landscape. Unfortunately, many of those barns are fast disappearing each year due to neglect - it is much simpler to maintain a much-less quaint metal structure than one of the wooden giants.
Tiny farming communities like Steptoe and Palouse echo a time when agricultural life was the way of life for mostmostmostNorth Americans, and these little towns also become fodder for the photographer's camera..
It's easy to become bewildered while driving through this country. The majority of the roads follow the valleys at the base of the hills and through some places it's almost impossible to see the horizon despite the obvious fact that the region is almost treeless. One area to get your bearings, nevermind some great photos, is at the very top of Steptoe Butte, a 3,612-foot mountain of quartzite that stands above the encircling hills. It's an excellent spot to come during the early morning or late evening to shoot the sensual Palouse farmland during the "golden hour" of light.
The Palouse country offers a nearly endless choice for landscape photography: panoramas, abstractions and glances of a way of life no longer familiar to a large number Americans.
Randy Green is a photographer and naturalist who leads <a href="http://www.wildlifeadventures.com">wildlife tours</a> around the world. He enjoys sharing <a href="http://www.wildlifeadventures.com/blog/category/photo-tips/">photography tips</a> in the field.
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Title: Eastern Washington's Best-kept Secret for Photographers
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