Photographing the Flint Hills of Kansas

I believe landscape photography is the most challenging genre of photography. People are easy to photograph. Almost anyone can make a decent photograph of a person. The subject in a photograph is easily established. The main point of interest in a photograph of a person can be more easily established. A landscape is much more challenging.

I know, there are rules of landscape photography, diagonal lines, geometric shapes, the rule of thirds, and framing.

Then you get areas like the photograph below with wide-open spaces and few elements except sky and grass.

If you want a real challenge, wander about and look for landscape compositions in places with wide-open spaces with few trees, rocks, mountains, or waterfalls. There is beauty in these places and you will notice that beauty there but to bring that beauty to life in a photograph is a challenge.