>>3406119What sort of landscape do you have around you? I live in a town on the prairie but have been able to find things around home for years. I shot around home more often back when I had a job and couldn't get away as often, but still I wander around several times a week looking for thing to shoot. About 20% of those trips are successful at best, and it's gotten much harder as the town has been rapidly growing and filling up with Americanized strip malls and apartment complexes. Old silos, grain elevators, barns, and history of all sorts are being torn down leaving a landscape full of Best Buys and Walmarts.
Do you have any forests, rivers, open spaces around you? Do you get snow often? Snow and frost completely changes a landscape, like with this frosty trees on a cold winter morning. This was down at a local open space a few years back (which is being torn up right now and is closed to the public). You have to look for shapes with the intimate landscape. I liked the way the treas made a large triangle that centered in the frame. You typically also want soft light as excessive contrast can be very harsh in the intimate scenes.
>>3406130Wind is a constant enemy. With my fastest exposures ever being around 1/15th and most well over a second it's a challenge. Desert landscapes don't matter so much - it takes some serious wind to get the camera rocking - but vegetation will blur if it moves at all. You can get good at timing between gusts. Is it literally *always* windy or are there calm mornings or days sometimes?
