Issue 2024.01

Getting the Look

A desert landscape with cracked landscape and pink clouds and mountains in the distance.
© Erin Babnik  Enigma. Varied layers of successive mud flows crack and peel after splaying out from a range of badlands in California. Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, EF 11-24mm f/4L USM at 11mm. Exposure: 2 sec., f/13, ISO 100.

How to Develop Style in Outdoor Photography

Words and Images by Erin Babnik

For the casual observer, it may not be obvious how personal style could possibly factor into any outdoor photograph. When nothing in an image is manufactured, staged, posed, or strobed, the totality of a photographer’s contributions could be obscure to such viewers. It may even seem generous to say that any photographer can ever claim full responsibility for results that owe so much of their force to nature’s whims.

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Issue 2024.01

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Photographer Features

The world’s best known photographers share their tips, techniques and personal stories on how to capture great images.

Photo Showcases

Get the inside scoop on how some of the most iconic images in outdoor photography were made.

Wild Lands

Exploring the wilderness for the best places to capture stunning images.

Field Notes

Photographers share the technical and creative decisions behind a striking photo.

Gear Up

Reviews, roundups and recommendations on the best photo gear for outdoor photography.

Parting Shot

Amusing nature and wildlife images, with commentary from the photographer.

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Photo of cheetahs running with motion blur
© Jon McCormack  
Tips & Techniques

5 Creative Ways to Capture Striking Photos of Wildlife

Words and Images by Jon McCormack  | September 2024

Wildlife photography can be a deeply rewarding pursuit, but capturing images that go beyond mere documentation requires creativity and intentionality.
Photo of a whale eating a group of fish
© Rafael Fernandez Caballero  
Web Features

Incredible Winners in Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest

The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 were recently announced in London, revealing stunning images including the overall winner (above) by Rafael Fernandez Caballero, which shows a Bryde’s whale about to engulf a swarm of sardines. In Caballero’s winning image, the sardines are forming what is known as a “baitball,” which is a defensive tactic to ward off predators.
Photo of a rainbow in Antarctica
© Jon McCormack  
Web Features

Why Every Photographer Should Travel to Antarctica

As we threaded through the Beagle Channel, I wondered if this icy continent could live up to the lofty expectations I’d formed since childhood. Growing up reading the tales of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Ernest Shackleton, Antarctica became a place of myth in my mind. Would it be as awe-inspiring as those stories made it seem?