LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY | I Waited For A Photograph That Did Not Exist Yet

In this week’s landscape photography episode, I return to an old favourite jetty location for a twilight and sunrise shoot under heavy cloud, soft colour and uncertain conditions. The conditions were just beautiful and easy compositions just worked when I hit an impasse.

Instead of chasing the next obvious composition, I tried something I usually fail to do. I choose a subject, read the changing light, plant my feet and wait for the photograph to arrive.

This is a quiet but important lesson in patience, anticipation and trusting the conditions before abandoning a scene too early. The sunrise was behind me, the colour was creeping across the sky, and the image I had in mind was not there yet. But this time I stayed with it, waited for the light to reach the opposite horizon, and was rewarded with one of those delicate, subtle landscape photography moments I would normally miss.

I specialise in large format print focusing on creating fine art images best viewed on a wall.