Fundamentals of Nature Photography

To continually preserve the world’s beauty is no small feat. Conservation travel plays a major role in protecting wild places and wildlife by involving local communities, creating local stakeholders, and ultimately adding value to mother nature via tourism dollars.

However, another fantastic way to truly preserve the beauty of our planet lies in a different realm…Photography!

We firmly believe that not only is nature photography an excellent way to save memories of your travels, chronicle your adventures, and have a heck of a lot of fun, but it’s also an increasingly powerful tool to literally preserve the beauty of our world in the ever-lasting medium that is digital photography.

What better way to showcase the wild beauty of a polar bear than snapping a fantastic photo, which you can have, share and cherish for the rest of time?

Photography also connects us with places, people and animals in a way that goes well beyond simple observation. Through photography, we dig into the details, we immerse ourselves, we notice the subtle nuances, and we garner an appreciation that is perhaps not as possible without these amazing modern tools we have in our cameras.

You can tell that we’re wild about photography and believe it has a power so far beyond just capturing an image. Our goal here is to take you on a photographic journey that improves your skills, hones your technique, and gives you the knowledge you need to continually improve as a nature photographer.

This guide is designed to be a primer for all things nature, wildlife, landscape and travel photography to help elevate your skills, which hopefully enhances your enjoyment of nature photography. And in doing so, we hope you will go out there and capture the tremendous beauty across our planet…whether that’s in your own backyard, local park, national park, or somewhere more remote and exotic.

But we’re not just stopping here. Keep an eye out for further eBooks on how to photograph our wild world with lessons from The Natural Photographer.

Taking the Shot

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