Photographers follow “the impulse to make landscape images” that “inspire us to get lost” among the terrain (Longmire, 1997).
As I walk through a space, I allow myself to let the scene speak to me. I was told by a seasoned landscape photographer to allow the space to create a visual sentence. The earth will display it's beauty for you if you open yourself to listen and seek. This intuition allows me to use the camera to frame and convey a what speaks to me; to evoke a feeling. Photographers often do not capture images for just the view, they allow the scene to speak to individuals who are gazing upon the scene. It is as if the photographer is speaking as one would read a book. It is not just a tree, or mountain, or landscape; look deeper as the photos whisper. This act of of “…utilized pictorial methods would visually explain the lake much in the same way that writers attempted to convey the scene with words” (McClean, 2015). Each image embodies a story as unique as time and place.