Outdoor Photography

Now is a great time to plan your fall color photo adventure, so we’ve collected some of our best travel guides and tips for successful autumn foliage photography around the country. No matter where you live, there’s a location not too far from home to experience the brilliant hues and unique atmosphere of the season.

Photo By Ross Stone Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Owens River Sunrise” by Ross Stone. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and

Photo By Randy Traynor It’s not every day you get to camp on a beach in the shadow of a 200-foot high, 2-mile-long glacier. In 2018, I called this area at Nellie Juan Glacier “home” for a week as I spent time exploring the glacier and wilderness of Prince William Sound with National Forest Service

Congratulations to Robert Henderson for winning the Wildlife In The Landscape Assignment with the image, “Serengeti Getting Green 3.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! Winner: “Serengeti Getting Green 3” By Robert Henderson “All

Did you miss a Photo Of The Day last month? View all of August’s selections in the slideshow below. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage,

Congratulations to Tom Elenbaas for winning the Green Scene Photography Assignment with the image, “Prairie Creek.” See more of Elenbaas’s photography at www.tomelenbaas.com.  View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! Winner: “Prairie Creek” By Tom

Patterns, curves, shapes and more are the building blocks upon which all structures originate. Whether it’s a repetitive hexagon formulated into a beehive or the foundational structure of a multi-story office building, they’re found everywhere. Factors that determine the success of the capture start with lens choice and subject. These evolve into reading the light,

Photo By Tom Thomson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Little Giant” by Tom Thomson. Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. “I set my camera on the ground upside down, hanging it out the window of the vehicle with a monopod and a cable release,” explains Thomson. Exposure: 1/1000th sec., f/11, ISO 720. Want to

Photo By Linn Smith “On almost a daily basis while living in a country-like environment, squirrels abound, performing numerous activities,” says Linn Smith. “One of their cutest behaviors occurs when two of them race up and down trees, seemingly trying to outdo each other with ability and speed. Witnessing their various feats, one watches in

Lake Superior is incredibly vast, and with its distinction as the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area—31,700 square miles—this inland sea lives up to its name. Superior’s coastline borders on three U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario, and its characteristics are as varied as its size. The lake’s North Shore, stretching more

Photo By Troy Harrison Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Hello It’s Me” by Troy Harrison. Location: Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Collier County, Florida. “A great blue heron sees its reflection in the still marsh waters along the Marsh Trail in Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge,” describes Harrison. “On winter mornings, this

Raucous calls outside my photo blind alerted me to a pair of green jays, an extremely colorful songbird. To photograph them, you must travel to the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. This songbird is one of many wildlife species found only in Texas. Green jays at Martin Refuge in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas

Congratulations to Kris Walkowski for winning the recent Worm’s Eye View Assignment with the image, “Yosemite In Fall.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! Winner: “Yosemite In Fall” By Kris Walkowski

A shadow is the result of the relationship between the subject’s location and the direction of the light source. With front light, the shadow falls behind the subject. When side lit, it appears on the opposite side that’s lit. When the sun is directly overhead, the shadow is revealed under the subject. The more intense

Photo by Linn Smith Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Water Disturbance” by Linn Smith. Location: Florida. “Spotting a fish, a great egret quickly dives its bill into the water and makes a huge splash in an attempt to hit its mark,” describes Smith. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo

Photo By Jeff Harshaw Today’s Photo Of The Day is “River Wide, Mountains High” by Jeff Harshaw. Location: Mammoth Lakes, California. “When I went out this afternoon, I had an objective in mind, get the upper Owens River and the Sherwin range of the Sierra Nevada mountains together in my frame,” says Harshaw. “There was