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Psych 101

To help you make landscape photos that resonate, we deconstruct the psychological baggage humans bring to a scene
Text & Photography By Glenn Randall

Updated September 23, 2016
One of the insights of modern psychology is how much our preferences and decisions are driven by unconscious processes.

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Originally Published April 14, 2015

Glenn Randall

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Glenn Randall is a wilderness landscape photographer whose primary subject is Colorado. He has been photographing every corner of the state since 1993 and recently completed a seven-year project to shoot sunrise from the summit of all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks. Farcountry Press published those images in Sunrise from the Summit: First Light on Colorado’s Fourteeners. Rocky Nook published his book Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night in spring 2018. The second edition of his bookThe Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, was published by Rocky Nook in spring, 2020.
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