Landscape

Definition: Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes. Derived from The Dutch word landschap meaning "region, tract of land”. The first recorded use of landscape was in 1598, as a painters' term when Dutch artists were pioneering the landscape genre. It was used in the artistic sense by the English to describe "a picture depicting scenery on land." 

A photographer I have looked at is Stephen Shore. Most of his famous photography is based in Los Angeles, US. However he has travelled quite a bit and has photography from various places like Ukraine, Italy and other areas in the US. I have looked at some of his landscape photography and the following images are ones I will use to influence my own work.