Landscape photographs can convey powerful conservation messages. But it is not only the leading, world-class professionals who can help save the world. Images of less remote and exotic places can swing the argument in local conservation battles. And taking pictures with an environmental purpose can make you a better photographer as well as an influential one.
Conservation Photography
There are broadly two approaches to building a local, conservationist portfolio. Perhaps the simplest and most obvious is to present pristine, rugged natural habitats as attractively as we can to build an appreciation for the wilderness.
We all do this on a regular basis, consciously or not. When we capture, tweak and present a landscape picture we produce a work of art. In some way it represents a fragment of the world, or our interpretation of it, with a particular composition and lighting that we find satisfying. But beyond that, we hope and believe it will inspire other people to appreciate natural, outdoor beauty.