This isn't so much a gear, technique or photo-sharing thread, exclusively, so much as it is a philosophy thread. The gear, technique and photo comparisons will come up, though.
Over the years as I have lurked photography forums, "land in scape" photography has risen to higher and higher prominence. I feel like even six or seven years ago, it was just called "landscape" and if you happened to catch one land in scape, that was more of a matter of luck. It still is very niche, but at least I'm starting to recognize LIS as more of a sport in its own right, like land-and-scape landscaping is a type of scand laping.
It's difficult to use a wide angle lens to quickly find, much less track a landing scape, it's even more difficult to get an interesting shot from a flattering angle with good lighting, it requires lots of patience in seeking out likely habitats and waiting for lands to come by, and even then, your gear needs to be top notch in order to keep up with the subject and produce a clear, sharp image. I am only now realizing how much I don't know about all this.
To the people who are LISers here, what are some of the reasons you do LIS photography? How do you approach a photo outing? Do you just go on a hike with your camera at the ready, or do you go to a pond, river or other destination and just wait for the right shot? Do you always take your 50mm lens when you are on any kind of photo shoot and break out the wide angle when you see some interesting scapes? What got you into LIS and what other kinds of photography do you do? How do you justify the expense of gear, at least at first, for something that so rarely produces a sharp, interesting, marketable photo?
