Light in the Landscape: A Photographer's Year - Hardcover

Landscape photographer Peter Watson addresses the creative art of photography, using light to enhance the beauty of nature throughout the year and in every weather. The book discusses the techniques used by leading photographers to remove the mystery that shrouds the creation of distinctive works.

A wintry seascape with a line of sunset pink shimmering in silky blue darkness. Sheets of brilliantly gleaming water cascading over cliffs. Golden skies illuminating rivers, green grass, and craggy rocks. All these astonishing images come from the camera of Peter Watson, one of the world's finest photographers. But this is more than just a breathtaking coffee book: it's an invaluable source of inspiration and instruction that will help you too capture the magnificence of a landscape. Through over 100 of his best works, he explains how he got the picture, what techniques and filters he used, the ways he developed depth and texture in the composition, and more. Month by month, it tracks seasonal changes, seizing nature in all its splendor.