Outdoor Photography

Photo By Brent Newman Covering 275 square miles of the Chihuahuan Desert in southern New Mexico, White Sands is the largest gypsum dune field on the planet. Designated on December 20, 2019, White Sands National Park incorporates about 41 percent of the dune field, with White Sands Missile Range encompassing the remainder. Runoff from the

Did you miss a Photo Of The Day last month? View all of March’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,

Adobe Super Resolution technology is the best solution I’ve yet found for increasing the resolution of digital images. It doubles the linear resolution of your file, quadrupling the total pixel count while preserving fine detail. Super Resolution is available in both Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom and is accessed via the Enhance command. And

Congratulations to Timothy Van Minnick for winning the Winter Grandscapes Assignment with the image, “Glacier Bay Vista.” See more of Minnick’s photography at  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: “Glacier Bay Vista” By

To our readers, contributors and friends in the Outdoor Photographer community, it has come to our attention that an individual using the name James Logan has been contacting photographers claiming to be the editor of Outdoor Photographer under the pretense of collaborating on editorial projects. This individual has attempted to gather personal information and collect

Be sure to read last week’s Tip of the Week to thoroughly digest Part 1 of Flower Power to learn all you need to know about the importance of light in flower photography. This week, we’ll focus on controlling the background. Control The Background Equally as important as the light, if the background doesn’t complement

Photo By Susanna Patras Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Spring in the Carpathians” by Susanna Patras. Location: Bicaz Lake in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. 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

Photo By Stephani Holdorf Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Calm Spring in the Tetons” by Stephani Holdorf. Location: Jackson Lake near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 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

Photo By Bob Faucher “My daughter and I attended a polar bear tour out of Churchill, Manitoba,” explains Bob Faucher. “Our group rented one of the famous Tundra Buggies on this day. Around midday, we spotted this mother and her cubs foraging on the tundra. The mother caught the scent of food wafting out the

Wouldn’t it be nice to conjure up majestic light on immaculate subjects any time of day? 5 a.m. wake-up calls to capture the sweet light of sunrise would no longer be necessary. Romantic sunsets with loved ones could occur every evening. Going to bed on a full stomach at 9 p.m. could become a thing

Many people are surprised to learn that in the midst of all the hustle and bustle of northern Virginia, just 17 miles from Washington, D.C., a National Park Service site sits nestled along the Potomac River. Great Falls Park is an 800-acre natural oasis that offers views of the mighty Potomac River as it crashes

Congratulations to Christopher Baker for winning the Winter Waterfowl Assignment with the image, “Gabbling Geese.” See more of Baker’s photography at cscottphoto.smugmug.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: “Gabbling Geese” By Christopher Baker

Photo By Jon Reynolds Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Tracking the Trails” by Jon Reynolds. Location: Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. “As I snowshoed past Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center and ascended the snow-covered Lassen Peak Highway, I stopped to notice the myriad meandering tracks of more intrepid snowshoers down in the valley below,” describes

Photo By John Welch Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Presidential Range in Winter After Snowstorm” by John Welch. Location: New Hampshire. “Fierce cold (-5 degrees air, -30 windchill) and winds on Mt. Pierce created a beautiful landscape of snowdrifts on the trail near the junction of the Crawford Path and Webster Cliff Trail (also

Bighorn sheep at Rocky Mountain National Park. To not disturb the wildlife, I often stayed pretty far away and used the Z 9’s DX crop mode to magnify my lens’s telephoto reach. Preproduction Nikon Z 9, AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR via Mount Adapter FTZ II. In the summer of 2021, I was

Who’s ready for spring?! For nature photographers, this is an exciting season to get outside in search of amazing views with a splash of color from beautiful blooms. Get inspired by the slideshow below of 23 images of wildflowers, then grab your camera and seek out your own stunning scenes! Looking for tips on how